1994 Al Unser, Jr. wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
1990 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (U.K. record)
1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
1983 Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico
1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
1981 Robin Leamy of U.S. swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
1981 French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, New York
1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1980 Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph)
1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph
1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
1978 Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
1976 Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1970 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1969 Kenneth H. Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1964 Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico
1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record)
1957 Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
1956 Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
1955 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D M Campbell)
1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California
1953 Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A
1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
1948 U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca
1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1937 Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph
1933 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1931 Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1923 U.S. lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
1912 J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1912 J. Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph - 161.29 kph
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph, 133 kph
1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
1905 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1898 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
1895 Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
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