2014 Event Renaud Lavillenie, French champion pole vaulter, breaks the previous height record, held by athlete Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars meet in Donetsk, Ukraine; Lavillenie reached 6.16 meters indoors, exceeding Bubka's world record of 6.15 m indoors achieved in 1993 1963 Event 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km 1951 Event U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record 1949 Event WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) 1948 Event U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) 1948 Event U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height 1934 Event Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec) 1912 Birthday Dorothy Height, American Activist
