2014 Event Microsoft Corp. is planning to buy Mojang, the company that created the video game Minecraft; the purchase price would likely exceed $2 billion 2013 Event In Birmingham, United Kingdom, eleven members of a terror cell are jailed for planning an attack to exceed the atrocities committed on July 7 and 9/11 1979 Event Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH) 1962 Event Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) 1955 Event 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D M Campbell) 1955 Event 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California 1951 Event U.S. tanks exceed 38 degrees of latitude in Korea 1950 Event South Korean troops exceed 38 degrees latitude 1948 Event 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca 1947 Event 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca 1935 Event 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) 1933 Event 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il 1905 Event 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
