1997 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11
1997 Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
1997 Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
1996 Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds)
1994 Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94
1994 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93
1994 Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in New York City
1994 7th longest NHL game: New Jersey Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec)
1993 Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)
1993 Goran Ivanisevic and Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in U.S. Tennis
1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min)
1992 Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94
1992 Longest salami is 68'9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
1992 Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
1991 Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games
1991 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1991 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 mins
1990 Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)
1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
1988 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in U.S. Open history
1988 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in New York
1988 Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6)
1988 Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hours 21 minutes
1987 Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34
1987 South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1987 Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1986 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 and win NL pennant
1986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
1986 Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
1984 White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game, 25 innings
1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1983 "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show
1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1981 Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7
1981 Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7
1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, U.K., world's longest span, 1.4 km, opens
1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words
1981 Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
1980 Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
1977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)
1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m)
1976 Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1976 Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1974 Louis B Russell Jr, longest living heart transplant, dies at 49
1974 Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1973 Robert Ryan, U.S. actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63
1973 Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens
1973 US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and milt draft
1971 Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
1971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
1969 Steve O'Neal of New York Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
1968 Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
1967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes
1967 Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers and Athletics)
1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
1966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one
1965 O Kommissarova (U.S.S.R.) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (New York City)
1964 Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge)
1964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
1964 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest New York Yankee game in history
1961 Phils and San Francisco set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie
1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants
1960 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
1960 Longest speech in United Nations history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1959 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Washington 31-17
1957 Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1957 World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1957 Glen Gorbous, Canada, longest throw of a regulation baseball, 445'10"
1955 Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11
1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
1954 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1950 Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
1947 Tom Dempsey, NFL record-holder, longest field goal, 63 yards
1944 Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
1941 Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1940 Gerry Cheevers, NHL goalie, Bruin, longest undefeated streak-32 games
1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job
1931 Ray Danton, New York City, actor and director, Longest Day, Psychic Killer
1931 Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
1923 Longest NL opening game, Phillies and Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14
1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
1917 Mel Ferrer, Elberon, New Jersey, actor, Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor
1916 Babe Ruth pitches and wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st and winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1909 Robert Ryan, Chicago, actor, Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day
1909 Detroit and Washington play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
1903 Madeleine Renaud, Paris, France, actress, Helene, Longest Day
1900 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens
1898 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor
1893 Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor, Enemy Below, Longest Day
1892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
1888 Longest U.S. men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1884 Oskar Loerke, German writer, Longest Day-1926
1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
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