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Jumps
1994
Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
1994
Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
1994
Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m
1994
Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
1993
Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
1993
Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
1992
Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
1989
Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
1989
Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1988
Louise Ritter, U.S., jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal
1988
Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 ")
1988
Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)
1988
Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
1987
Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
1987
Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
1987
Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
1986
Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
1986
Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
1984
Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)
1984
Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m)
1982
Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1981
Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
1977
Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
1977
Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt)
1973
Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73
1971
"Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington
1967
Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967
Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1965
Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
1956
U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks
1920
Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
1910
1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
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