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1995 Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever)

1993 St. Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves

1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes

1992 Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ

1990 New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats)

1989 Greg LeMond wins Tour de France in fastest time

1989 Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)

1988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)

1988 Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)

1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)

1985 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds

1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)

1985 New Jersey Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds

1983 Black Hawks and Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)

1983 Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)

1983 Calvin Smith of U.S. becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m)

1982 Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year

1981 Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 pts (38th game)

1981 Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)

1980 Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)

1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)

1975 Fastest hat trick by a Washington Capitals 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)

1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England

1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)

1972 Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)

1955 Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds)

1953 Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston

1952 Graham Salmon, blind runner, fastest 100m by a blind man

1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)

1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators

1939 Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots, 345 mph

1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1

1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)

1901 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds

1895 J. T. Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) England vs. Australia

1810 Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built fastest clipper ships



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