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Vicki Keith Munro, CM, O.Ont (born 26 February 1961 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a retired Canadian marathon swimmer.
She currently holds 16 world records and has received over 41 honours and awards, having crossed many of the world’s most challenging bodies of water. To date, she has raised over $1 million CAD to help children with physical disabilities. Retired from marathon swimming since 1991, Keith continues to raise awareness and funds for programs and projects to help children with physical disabilities and makes public appearances as an inspirational speaker.
She came out of retirement to attempt a new world record on August 5, 2005. Her goal was to swim 84 km (52 mi) from Oswego, New York to Kingston, Ontario. However, her attempt was cut short due to high waves. Just before leaving the water, she was averaging only one kilometre an hour because of waves more than two metres tall. If Keith had continued, the wind and waves would have added 30 more hours to her expected 48-hour swim.
Two weeks after her unsuccessful attempt, Keith was back in the water. This time the route was a shoreline swim that saw her travel from Point Petre in Prince Edward County to Long Point, then diagonally to the north shore of Amherst Island, along Amherst Island to Griffin Point, across to Fairfield Park and then along the shore to Lake Ontario Park. She completed 80.2 kilometres, setting a new world record for distance butterfly. The swim, originally predicted to take 48 hours, took 63 hours and 40 minutes (over 2½ days). Keith had to fight high winds and waves, strong currents, cold temperatures, and hallucinations as she pushed beyond what most believed feasible to accomplish her goal.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Every Year
1790s
1830s
1870s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1940s
1950s
1960s
- 1963: HOTLINE BETWEEN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE KREMLIN INSTALLED
- 1967: THURGOOD MARSHALL CONFIRMED AS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
1970s
1980s
- 1983: FIRST NIGHT LAUNCH OF A SPACE SHUTTLE (CHALLENGER), KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA
- 1983: ASTRONAUT GUION BLUFORD BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO REACH SPACE
- 1988: VICKI KEITH BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO SWIM ACROSS ALL FIVE GREAT LAKES
- 1989: HOTEL QUEEN LEONA HELMSLEY CONVICTED ON TAX EVASION CHARGES, LATER SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON AND FINED $8.8 MILLION
1990s
- DIED 1994: LINDSAY ANDERSON (DIRECTOR OF FILM)
- 1997: TENNIS PLAYER GREG RUSEDSKI SERVED A BALL AT 141 MPH AT THE U.S. OPEN IN NEW YORK CITY
2000s
- DIED 2003: CHARLES BRONSON (ACTOR)
- 2006: CURT SCHILLING OF THE BOSTON RED SOX BECAME THE 14TH MLB PITCHER TO REACH 3,000 CAREER STRIKEOUTS
- DIED 2006: GLENN FORD (ACTOR)
2010s
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