1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
1995 Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
1995 Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours and 36 minutes
1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
1993 Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78
1991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1990 Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes and 58.44 seconds backwards!
1988 "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
1988 New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hours 21 minutes
1986 Game between Angels and Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1985 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
1983 Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
1983 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds
1982 Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
1982 Randy Holt sets Washington Capitals record of 34 penalty minutes
1981 Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4 minutes
1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
1976 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
1974 Greg Chappell makes 247* vs. NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1971 Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1968 Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game and 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
1968 "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
1968 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV
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 James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes
1967 Boycott scores 246* vs. India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
1966 Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1965 John Edrich completes 310* vs. NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
1964 Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
1963 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1962 Umrigar slams 172* vs. WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
1960 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
1958 Game in Kansas City between A's and Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
1958 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs. West Indies
1954 Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes vs. Pakistan
1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158 degrees F for 2 minutes
1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1948 Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
1948 Bradman scores 187 Aust vs. Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
1948 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
1945 Diane Sawyer, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time
1945 Steve Kroft, Kokomo, Indiana, co-editor, 60 Minutes
1943 Temperature rises 49 degrees F (9 degrees C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD
1942 Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
1941 Ed Bradley, born in Philadelphia, CBS news correspondent, 60 Minutes
1940 Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA
1939 Bradman scores 251* SA vs. NSW, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes
1938 Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia vs. Lancashire
1938 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs. England in 223 minutes
1937 Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket vs. England
1936 Bradman scores 357 for SA vs. Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours
1934 Ponsford and Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes vs. Eng
1931 Morley Safer, Toronto California, TV newscaster, 60 Minutes
1931 Dan Rather, born in Wharton, Texas, news anchor, CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes
1931 Bradman scores 152 Aust vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes and lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1926 White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
1925 Shana Alexander, New York City, journalist, 60 Minutes
1924 South Africa all out 30 vs. England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
1923 Harry Reasoner, Dakota City Iowa, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC, CBS
1922 Don Hewitt, New York City, CBS news executive producer, 60 Minutes
1920 James J Kilpatrick, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, columnist, 60 Minutes
1920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
1919 Andy Rooney, born in Albany, New York, CBS news correspondent, 60 Minutes
1918 Mike Wallace, Brookline, Massachusetts, newscaster, Biography, 60 Minutes
1908 World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1903 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
1901 NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York City (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1870 Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch
1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St. Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
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