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Answered By:
Robert Fitzpatrick
Last Updated:
Nov 12, 2014
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"The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens." " August or September, 490 BC" (Wikipedia)
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