2013 Event U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer breaks his shoulder on a fall from his bicycle and is taken to the hospital by ambulance 2010 Event Two men on motorcycles fatally shot Pedro Alcantara de Souza, a Brazilian land reform activist, five times in the head while he tried to ride his bicycle in Para 1991 Event Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race 1989 Event 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta) 1988 Event Greatest number of participants, 31,678, on a bicycle tour, London 1988 Event Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana) 1986 Event Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph 1985 Event Henry G. Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia 1984 Event Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km 1983 Death Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies 1980 Event Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph 1979 Event Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m 1976 Event John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent 1975 Event Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world 1974 Event Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 1941 Event Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis 1936 Event 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin 1934 Birthday Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer, 5-time winner 1920 Birthday Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer, folding bicycle 1909 Event Moran and MacFarland (U.S.) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin) 1903 Event 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins 1903 Event New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced 1902 Event Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race 1902 Birthday Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Bicycle Thiefs 1901 Birthday Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer, Fiat 1899 Event IR Johnson patents bicycle frame 1899 Event 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in U.S. begins, MSG, New York City 1896 Event 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY 1896 Event 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden 1895 Event 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) 1893 Event San Francisco Bay City Club opens 1st U.S. bicycle race track, made of wood 1891 Event 1st international 6-day bicycle race in U.S. (MSG, New York City) begins 1889 Event Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake 1888 Event John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire 1887 Event Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF) 1880 Event League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island 1878 Event 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms 1869 Event Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen) 1868 Event 1st American bicycle college opens (NY) 1868 Event Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris 1866 Event Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle 1818 Event Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle) 1817 Event Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
