2012 Event Jamaican runner Usain Bolt wins his third gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, anchors the sprint relay team to a world record; Bolt is 25 years old and now holds six Olympic gold medals 2012 Event U.S. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps wins a record 19th Olympic medal, with gold in the 4x200metres freestyle relay 2012 Event In London, the Olympic Torch arrives, signaling the final stages of the U.K.-wide relay ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics 2011 Event A new world record is set by Jamaica's 4x100-meter relay team of Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake 1991 Event U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds 1990 Event Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10 1985 Event Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m) 1981 Event 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) 1979 Birthday Ashley Whitney, born in Nashville, Tennessee, 800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics 1977 Birthday Catherine Fox, 400m freestyle relay, 1996 Olympics gold 1976 Birthday Scott Mark Cameron, Dunedin New Zealand, 4x200m relay swimmer 1996 Olympics 1976 Death Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics, Bronze Medal 1932 Olympics, dies at 64 1975 Birthday Scott Tucker, Birmingham, Alabama, 400m/800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics 1974 Birthday Annette Salmeen, 200m butterfly/800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics 1974 Birthday Gary Hall, Jr., U.S., 50m/100m/400m free relay, Olympic-gold/2 silver-96 1974 Birthday Lisa Jacob, 800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday Ryan Berube, U.S., 800m freestyle relay, 1996 Olympics gold 1973 Birthday Joe Hudepohl, U.S., 800m freestyle relay, 1996 Olympics gold 1972 Birthday Marianne Limpert, born in Matagami, Quebec, 200m relay swimmer, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics 1966 Event BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island 1964 Event American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded 1962 Event Relay 1 communication satellite launched 1961 Birthday Alonzo Babers, born in Montgomery, Alabama, 400m/4X400m relay, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics 1959 Birthday Pascal Barre, France, sprint relay team 1980 Olympics bronze 1958 Event 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip 1957 Birthday Irina Nazariva, born in U.S.S.R., 4 x 400m relay, 1980 Olympics gold 1954 Birthday Ruben Guerrero, Mexico, relay swimmer, Olympic-1968 1952 Birthday Ludmila Maslakova, U.S.S.R., relay runner 1980 Olympics silver 1949 Birthday Ronnie Ray Smith, 4 x 100m relay runner, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1948 Birthday Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner, Olympics gold 72 1947 Birthday Aleksandr Tikhonova, U.S.S.R., biathalon relay, Gold Medals 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics 1946 Birthday Eva Klobukowska, born in Poland, relay sprinter 1964 Olympic gold 1945 Event 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log 1945 Event Arthur C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit 1938 Birthday Brunhilde Hendrix, born in West Germany, relay runner 1960 Olympics silver 1937 Birthday Eero Mantyranta, Finland, nordic ski relay 1960 Olympics gold 1932 Birthday Dean Smith, U.S. actor/relay runner 1952 Olympics gold 1931 Birthday Thelma Kalama, U.S., 4 x 100m relay swimmer, 1948 Olympics gold 1930 Birthday Sonja Ruthstrom, Swed, cross country relay skier 1960 Olympics gold 1930 Birthday Alevtina Koltschina, U.S.S.R., cross coutry relay skier, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics 1923 Birthday Martin Stokken, Norway, nordic relay 1952 Olympics silver 1922 Birthday Herb McKenley, born in Jamaica, 4 x 400m relay runner 1952 Olympics gold 1913 Birthday Foy Draper, U.S., relay runner 1936 Olympics gold 1912 Birthday Ilse Dorffeldt, Germany, sprint relay, Olympic-1936 1909 Birthday Wilhelmina Von Bremen, U.S. 4X100 relay sprinter 1932 Olympics gold 1908 Birthday Sulo Nurmela, Finland, 4 x 100K relay skier 1936 Olympics gold 1907 Birthday Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 x 10K relay 1936 Olympics gold 1904 Birthday Hjordis Topel, Sweden, diving and 4 x 100m relay, Olympic-bronze-1924 1889 Birthday Irene Steer, England, 4 x 100m relay swimmers, Gold Medal 1912 Olympics
