1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1996 Portland's Jermaine O'Neal, 18, becomes youngest NBA player
1996 Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient, 90 mins old
1996 Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series
1996 Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7
1996 Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7
1995 Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds
1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
1995 Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
1992 Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of International Tennis Hall of Fame
1992 Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
1991 Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
1991 Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches
1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals
1987 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win U.S. Tennis Open match
1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1984 Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th and youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
1984 New York Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across U.S. (24 days)
1984 Holly Roffey, youngest heart transplant, dies at 4 weeks
1984 Holly Roffey, Englnd, youngest heart transplant
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1981 Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest International gymnastics participant
1980 Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore, dies at 96
1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in U.S. Tennis Open, she loses
1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
1971 Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel
1971 Wang Yang, youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 1988 Olympics
1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to U.S. Women's open golf tournament
1966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1956 White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
1955 Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ
1953 Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 years 239 days, youngest Aussie
1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
1945 Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1944 Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25
1944 Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
1944 Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
1943 Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's
1939 Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games
1936 Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City
1924 Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)
1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days
1876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1837 Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
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