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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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