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1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel

1991 Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii

1991 Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter and rallying to beat Weber State 55-49

1990 Biggest U.S. art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston

1990 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds

1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa

1989 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world

1987 Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history

1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded

1982 Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City

1981 Washington Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2

1976 Cleve Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)

1973 Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)

1970 Cleve Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87)

1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world

1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"

1967 King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)

1964 Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash

1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)

1957 World's biggest glass oven used

1956 Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minnesota Lakers-133, St. Louis Hawks-75

1954 Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized

1944 Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground

1932 Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest)

1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens

1923 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower

1794 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)

1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam



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