2011 Event Illinois experiences heavy thunderstorms with 75 mph winds, cutting power to 868,000 homes and businesses 1997 Event Japanese Maglev train builders claim world speed record at 332 MPH 1997 Event Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph) 1997 Event Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH 1997 Event Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph 1997 Event Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph) 1997 Event Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (U.S. Open) 1991 Event Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina with 115 MPH wind 1990 Event Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) 1989 Event Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas 1989 Event Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany 1988 Event Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica 1988 Event Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) 1987 Event Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile 1987 Event Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) 1987 Event Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH 1987 Event Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record, 124.9 mph 1987 Event Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph) 1987 Event Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega 1986 Event Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500 1986 Event Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph 1986 Event Fred Markham (U.S.), unpaced and unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California 1986 Event Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph 1986 Event Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz) 1985 Event Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast 1984 Event Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH 1983 Event Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph 1983 Event Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) 1982 Event Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph 1982 Event Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH 1981 Event Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) 1980 Event Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph) 1979 Event Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH) 1978 Event Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph) 1978 Event Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph 1977 Event Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph) 1976 Birthday Mark Philippoussis, Australia, tennis star, 140 MPH serve 1974 Event California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH) 1974 Event Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die 1974 Event Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph) 1974 Event 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted 1974 Event 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon 1973 Event Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure 1970 Event Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph) 1970 Event Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) 1970 Event Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France) 1967 Event William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72 1967 Death Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water 1966 Event 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die 1965 Event Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH 1965 Event Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah 1965 Event 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447 1964 Event Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph) 1964 Event Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH 1964 Event Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph) 1963 Event Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yards 1963 Event Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH 1961 Event Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph 1960 Event Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH 1959 Event 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH) 1957 Event Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH 1957 Birthday Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph 1956 Event 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) 1956 Event Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph) 1955 Event 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D M Campbell) 1955 Event 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California 1954 Event Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled 1953 Event Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH) 1947 Event John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH 1947 Birthday John Howard, U.S., speed record, 152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT 1947 Event 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca 1945 Event Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car 1945 Event New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF 1939 Event New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph) 1939 Event John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats 1939 Birthday Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots, 345 mph 1938 Event Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700 1938 Event George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH 1938 Event John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) 1937 Event George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH 1935 Event Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph 1935 Event 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) 1935 Event England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages 1935 Event Frank Bartell, Czechoslovakia, cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles 1934 Event Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 231 mph 1933 Event 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il 1932 Event Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona 1927 Event Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona 1926 Birthday Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer, Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH 1925 Event Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy 1924 Event Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH 1912 Event J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) 1912 Event J. Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph - 161.29 kph 1911 Event Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph, 133 kph 1911 Event 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH) 1910 Event Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona 1907 Event Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph) 1905 Event 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach 1904 Event Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH 1898 Event Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph) 1895 Event America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH 1894 Event Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st U.S. autos at 6 MPH
