TIGER WOODS
....becomes the first person of color to win the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, which admitted its first black member in 1990.On April 13, 1997, Woods, then 21, won his first major tournament, the Masters at Augusta National in Georgia. Woods’ 72-hole score, an amazing 18-under-par 270, was the lowest in the tournament history and shattered a record of 271 shared by Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. Additionally, Woods, who defeated Tom Kite by a record-setting margin of 12 strokes, became the youngest person to don the green sport coat given to each year’s Masters victor, as well as the first winner of African or Asian descent. In 2006, he was the highest paid athlete in all professional sports.
SIDNEY POITIER
... becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor on this day in 1964, , for his role as a laborer who helps build a chapel in Lilies of the Field (1963).
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