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Events on Monday 28 July 1958 1
1958 – 1981Terry Fox (1958-1981)Died 28 June 1981, aged 22Canadian athlete and cancer research campaigner Terry Fox died in New Westminster, British Columbia, on 28 June 1981. He had run 5,373 kilometers across Canada on a prosthetic leg in his Marathon of Hope before cancer forced him to stop in 1980. The annual Terry Fox Run held in his memory has since raised hundreds of millions of dollars for cancer research.