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Motorcycle
1996 Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies on motorcycle at 34

1995 John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45

1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman

1988 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash

1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph

1977 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris

1974 Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82

1971 Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24

1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles

1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York

1966 Richard Farina, rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident

1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)

1942 Giacomo Agostini, born in Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion

1938 Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil, Snake River Canyon

1935 Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash

1928 Vaughn Beals, Cambridge Massachusetts, CEO, Harley Davidson motorcycle

1914 1st U.S. motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)

1903 George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle 51 days out of SF

1903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Francisco (George Wymann)

1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US

1900 Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65

1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York

1897 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)

1885 Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled

1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle

1854 Dugald Clerk, inventor, 2-stroke motorcycle engine

1834 Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle



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