2013 Event In Japan, the Nissan Leaf self-driving car completes its very first road test on the Sagami Expressway; it is the first self-driving car ever to be tested in Japan 2013 Event NASA completes a launch of the MAVEN, whose mission is to study Mars atmosphere in depth' the data from the MAVEN will help researchers construct a history of the climate on Mars and should help them understand how the water on Mars disappeared 2013 Event Nik Wallenda completes a high wire walk across a Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon 2012 Event The first commercial spacecraft, SpaceX Dragon, docks with the International Space Station when it completes docking at 12:02pm EDT 2011 Event Neptune completes its first orbit of the sun since the planet was discovered in 1846 1998 Event Steven M. Gluckstern completes sale of New York Islanders 1997 Event Yahoo completes purchase of Four11 1997 Event Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight 1995 Event Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 vs. SL, MCG) 1995 Event U.S. space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun 1995 Event Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval 1995 Event Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge 1995 Event Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford 1995 Event Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians vs. Kent 1995 Event Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km) 1995 Event Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria vs. South Australia 1994 Event Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 vs. Eng, MCG) 1994 Event Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun 1994 Event Boon completes his 19th Test century (114 vs. Pak, Karachi) 1993 Event Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 vs. New Zealand, Hobart) 1993 Event Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley 1993 Event Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge 1993 Event Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* vs. England at Lord's 1993 Event Brian Lara completes 277 vs. Australia at cricket SCG 1992 Event Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 vs. India at Adelaide 1992 Event Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs. Australia at the SCG 1992 Event Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs. India at Sydney 1991 Event Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* vs. WI at Kingston 1991 Event Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 vs. England at Adelaide 1989 Event Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia 1989 Event Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 vs. WI at SCG 1988 Event Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi 1988 Event Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, vs. Australia 1987 Event Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes 1986 Event Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. New Zealand 1985 Event Henry G. Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia 1985 Event Michael Secrest (U.S.) completes 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards 1984 Event Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, vs. New Zealand, Hyderabad 1984 Event Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1983 Event Graeme Yallop completes 268 vs. Pakistan at cricket MCG 1983 Event Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia 1983 Event George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere 1983 Event Charlos Vieira completes 191 hour "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal 1983 Event Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes 1982 Event Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight 1982 Event Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka vs. India 1982 Event In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal 1981 Event British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles) 1980 Event Richard Todd of New York Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record) 1980 Event Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours 1980 Event Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season 1980 Event Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs. Pakistan 1979 Event D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 1979 Event Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and back to Yates Center, Ks 1979 Event Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4 1979 Event Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hours, 28 minutes, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1978 Event Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours 1978 Event Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado 1978 Event Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida 1978 Event Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void" 1977 Event Chris Old completes a century in 37 minutes, Yorks vs. Warwicks 1977 Event Dr. Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops 1976 Event John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent 1975 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes Sonate for alto opus 147 1974 Event Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen 1974 Event Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage 1974 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet 1974 Event Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs. England Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six 1971 Event Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut 1970 Event Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs. Australia at Durban 1969 Event Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning U.S. Tennis Open 1969 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony 1968 Event Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes 1968 Event Zond 5 completes flight 1968 Event Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon 1968 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet 1967 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Violin concert 1966 Event Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman 1966 Event Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" 1966 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd cello concert 1966 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet 1965 Event John Edrich completes 310* vs. New Zealand in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes 1965 Event Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits 1964 Event Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings vs. Pakistan 1964 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet 1964 Event Bob Dylan completes U.K. tour 1964 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet 1964 Event UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0) 1963 Event Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW vs. Qld at Gabba 1963 Event Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury 1962 Event Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga 1962 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony 1962 Event Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon 1961 Event Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 min 1961 Event Kanhai completes twin tons (117 and 115) vs. Australia at Adelaide 1960 Event Dr. Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City 1960 Event USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water 1959 Event Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to San Francisco voyage 1959 Event Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record 1959 Event Rohan Kanhai completes 256 vs. India at Calcutta 1958 Event Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours 1958 Event Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole 1958 Event Sobers completes a century in each innings vs. Pakistan 1958 Event Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 1958 Event Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs. West Indies 1957 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Piano Concert 1953 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony 1952 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 5th string quartet 1950 Event Frank Worrell completes 261 vs. England at Trent Bridge 1949 Event Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452 miles in 94 hours 1948 Event Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 and 127*) vs. India MCG 1945 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony 1945 Event Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis" 1944 Event U.S. 1st Army completes invasion plan 1943 Event Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers" 1942 Event During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France 1941 Event Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony 1939 Event Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe 1938 Event Don Budge wins U.S. Tennis open and completes Grand Slam 1938 Event Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent 1938 Event "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic 1937 Event O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Australia 1936 Event Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in New York 1936 Event Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 4th Symphony 1935 Event George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs. England at Kingston 1934 Event Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau" 1934 Event Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 minutes, 43 fours 2 sixes 1933 Event Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight 1933 Event House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition 1932 Event Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings 1932 Event Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight 1932 Event William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" 1931 Event Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481) 1931 Event Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi) 1930 Event Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans 1930 Event George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs. England (114 and 112) 1922 Event White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage 1921 Event Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 vs. England, Australian Test Cricket rec 1919 Event NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic 1917 Event Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates 1911 Event Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of U.S. by airplane (84 days) 1910 Event Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk 1903 Event Reg Foster completes 287 England vs. Australia on Test Cricket debut 1903 Event Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo 1898 Event Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe 1896 Event George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England) 1896 Event Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut vs. Australia, Old Trafford 1895 Event Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs vs. Somerset at Taunton 1895 Event W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs. Somerset at Bristol 1895 Event Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat 1895 Event Anaheim completes it's new electric light system 1893 Event Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor 1892 Event Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne 1882 Event Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match vs. England (7-46 and 7-44) 1882 Event Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal" 1881 Event Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony 1878 Event Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match 1877 Event Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs. Eng 1877 Event Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 vs. Eng 1876 Event Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m 1876 Event Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet 1876 Event Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hours 32 min 1869 Event Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR 1862 Event JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan" 1862 Event Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo" 1862 Event General JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" 1858 Event Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable 1845 Event Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days 1844 Event Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line 1818 Event Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) 1816 Event Lord Byron completes "Parisina" and "Siege of Corinth" 1814 Event Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" 1808 Event Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam 1790 Event Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage 1787 Event Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 1787 Event John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton 1787 Event Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik" 1785 Event Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10) 1751 Event Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha" 1601 Event Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world 1581 Event Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world 1542 Event Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code 1522 Event Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan 1105 Event Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary 1079 Event Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
