1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1994 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
1994 Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km)
1994 Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km)
1994 Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
1994 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)
1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
1993 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
1993 Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78)
1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
1993 Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
1993 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1992 David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
1991 Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1988 Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)
1987 Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76)
1987 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
1987 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36)
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1986 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1986 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) and 3 km (4:18.02)
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1986 U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1986 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
1985 International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1984 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
1984 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
1984 Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km
1984 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
1984 Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
1983 Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97)
1982 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59)
1981 Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, U.K., world's longest span, 1.4 km, opens
1981 Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
1980 U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
1972 U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1967 Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km)
1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1967 U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1967 Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker, world record 20 km
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1965 U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
1965 U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1964 Elizabeth McColgan, British running star, world record 5 km indoor
1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1962 Robert Druppers, runner, world record 1 km indoor
1961 U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker, world record 5 km
1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1960 Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40
1959 Ronald Weigel, German DR speed walker, 5 km indoor
1959 Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1958 U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1958 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1956 Toshihiko Seko, Japanese runner, world record 25/30 km
1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1951 U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record
1950 Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
1949 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1949 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
1948 U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
1946 Largest solar prominence, 300,000 mi/500,000 km, observed
1946 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt
1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
1943 U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
1943 New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia)
1942 Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1937 Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km)
1937 Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
1935 Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
1933 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1930 Jules Ladoumegue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
1929 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1928 Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1923 Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist, world record 45,798 km
1915 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
1912 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr
1912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km)
1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1906 Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km
1905 Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3"
1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
1893 Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
1890 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19)
1885 Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min, 8 km/min
1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr. Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation
1853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico
1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1823 English Capt James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole
1774 Capt Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
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