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