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2003
Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97
1997
Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida
1992
Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
1988
Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53)
1987
Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait
1985
Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
1985
Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool
1983
Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
1983
Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1982
Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
1981
American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981
6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)
1980
Valerie Hould-Marchand, Riviere-Du-Loup QU, synchro swim, Oly-silv-96
1979
Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
1978
Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1973
1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1972
Yang Wenyi, Chinese swim star, WR/OR 50m freestyle
1971
Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel
1963
1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of U.S.)
1962
Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1961
Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 min
1951
Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes
1951
Peter Davison, actor, Dr. Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three
1949
Diana Nyad, swimmer, 1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979
1949
1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1947
Richard Roth, U.S., 400m swim medley 1964 Olympic gold
1930
Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
1927
Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard and 200-yard free-style swim record
1927
Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard and 200-yard free-style
1926
New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel
1923
Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
1923
1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan
1918
Florence Chadwick, swimmer, 1st to swim English Channel both ways
1892
Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
1877
1st U.S. amateur swim meet (New York Athletic Club)
1876
2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38
1875
Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel, 21h 45m
1875
9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42
1868
2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
1827
1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass)
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