August 5, 1948 · London, England

Sammy Lee Wins Olympic Diving Gold

achievement

Sammy Lee won Olympic gold in 10-meter platform diving in London, becoming the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal; he repeated as champion in 1952. (Shares Aug 5 with the 2012 Oak Creek gurdwara shooting.)

Sources

britannica.com britannica.com/biography/Sammy-Lee
usopm.org usopm.org/sammy-lee

Also on August 5

August 5, 2012 injustice

Oak Creek Sikh Temple Shooting

A white-supremacist gunman killed six worshippers (a seventh died of his wounds years later) at a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, one of the deadliest attacks on a US faith community.

Content note: racial violence