2014 Event Flight recorder signals from the missing Malaysia Air jet are no longer detectable; the flight, which disappeared on March 8th, may be located in a zone of over 57,000 square km of water about 2,200 km to the northwest of Perth, Australia 2012 Event The launch of a space satellite into space by North Korea is disputed by South Korean defense ministry, who claim it was a disguised test of a 10,000 km range missile 2012 Event Europe's cold wave continues, with over 400 dead; the Danube River freezes over for 170 km 1995 Event Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08) 1995 Event Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26) 1995 Event Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km) 1994 Event 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth 1994 Event Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km) 1994 Event Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km) 1994 Event Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km) 1994 Event Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96) 1994 Event Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km) 1994 Event Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26) 1994 Event Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60) 1994 Event Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32) 1994 Event Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28) 1994 Event Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55) 1993 Event Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29 1993 Event Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78) 1993 Event Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km 1993 Event Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91) 1993 Event 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA) 1993 Event Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 1993 Event Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 1992 Event Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km) 1992 Event David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun 1991 Event Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km) 1991 Event Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) 1991 Event Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) 1988 Event Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km) 1988 Event Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City 1988 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25) 1988 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13) 1987 Event Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76) 1987 Event Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51) 1987 Event Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea 1987 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36) 1987 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85) 1986 Event Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km 1986 Event Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km 1986 Event Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99) 1986 Event Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) and 3 km (4:18.02) 1986 Event European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 1986 Event Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km 1986 Event Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km 1986 Event Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km 1986 Event U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km 1986 Event Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14) 1986 Event Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons 1985 Event International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km 1984 Event Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) 1984 Event Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) 1984 Event Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91) 1984 Event Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km 1984 Event Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km 1984 Event Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) 1983 Event Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km) 1983 Event World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid 1983 Event Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97) 1982 Event Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59) 1981 Event Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km) 1981 Event Humbar Estuary Bridge, U.K., world's longest span, 1.4 km, opens 1981 Event Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70) 1980 Event U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn 1980 Event Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France 1979 Event Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550/580 km) 1978 Event Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida 1977 Event Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524') 1974 Event NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) 1973 Event U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet 1973 Event U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) 1972 Event U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km) 1972 Event Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12 1970 Event Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi 1969 Event Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) 1968 Event William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight) 1968 Event Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km) 1967 Event Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km 1967 Event Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km) 1967 Event Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km 1967 Event U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) 1967 Birthday Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker, world record 20 km 1966 Event Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon 1966 Event William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km 1965 Event Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km 1965 Event Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km 1965 Event Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km 1965 Event U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km) 1965 Event 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon) 1965 Event U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus 1965 Event Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km) 1964 Birthday Elizabeth McColgan, British running star, world record 5 km indoor 1963 Event 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km 1963 Event NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) 1963 Event NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km 1963 Event SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km)) 1963 Event Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km) 1963 Event U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km 1963 Event Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km 1962 Event Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) 1962 Birthday Robert Druppers, runner, world record 1 km indoor 1961 Event U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back 1961 Event Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km) 1961 Birthday Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker, world record 5 km 1961 Event Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km 1960 Event Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight 1960 Event Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km 1960 Death Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40 1959 Birthday Ronald Weigel, East Germany speed walker, 5 km indoor 1959 Event Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission 1959 Event 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) 1958 Event U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back 1958 Event 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back 1958 Event Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 1957 Event Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km 1956 Birthday Toshihiko Seko, Japanese runner, world record 25/30 km 1954 Event 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM 1951 Event U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record 1950 Event Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25) 1949 Event 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) 1949 Event 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km 1949 Event V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km 1948 Event U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) 1946 Event U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM 1946 Event 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico 1946 Event Largest solar prominence, 300,000 mi/500,000 km, observed 1946 Event 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt 1944 Event U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid 1943 Event U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina 1943 Event New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia) 1942 Event Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km) 1942 Event Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) 1942 Event 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km 1937 Event Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km) 1937 Event Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km) 1935 Event Moscow underground opens (81 km long) 1933 Event Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km) 1930 Event Jules Ladoumegue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6) 1929 Event 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1929 Event Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway 1928 Event Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km 1923 Event Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) 1919 Event Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM) 1919 Birthday Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist, world record 45,798 km 1915 Event Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York 1914 Event French troops withdraw 10 km from German border 1914 Event Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) 1914 Event Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) 1912 Event Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr 1912 Event 1st running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race, 7.63 miles / 12.3 km 1911 Event M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km 1910 Event Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km 1906 Event Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km 1905 Event Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3" 1904 Event Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km) 1903 Event 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated 1893 Event Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km) 1890 Event Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) 1885 Birthday Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min, 8 km/min 1879 Event In a 6-day footrace a Mr. Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km 1871 Event Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation 1853 Event Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico 1853 Event 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km) 1845 Event Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days 1834 Event Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 1823 Event English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole 1774 Event Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
