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Bicycle
1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race

1989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)

1988 Greatest number of participants, 31,678, on a bicycle tour, London

1988 Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)

1986 Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph

1985 Henry G. Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia

1984 Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km

1983 Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies

1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph

1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m

1976 John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent

1975 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world

1974 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975

1941 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis

1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin

1934 Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer, 5-time winner

1920 Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer, folding bicycle

1909 Moran and MacFarland (U.S.) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)

1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins

1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced

1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race

1902 Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Bicycle Thiefs

1901 Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer, Fiat

1899 IR Johnson patents bicycle frame

1899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in U.S. begins, MSG, New York City

1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY

1896 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden

1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)

1893 San Francisco Bay City Club opens 1st U.S. bicycle race track, made of wood

1891 1st international 6-day bicycle race in U.S. (MSG, New York City) begins

1889 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake

1888 John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire

1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)

1880 League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle assn), forms in Newport, Rhode Island

1878 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms

1869 Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)

1868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)

1868 Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris

1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle

1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)

1817 Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course



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