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by abcdnitin, Jul 8, 2008 |
For those who like sports. |
- In 1981, baseball's Chicago white sox moved their centre field wallin by 43 feet Chicago's power hitters would hit a few more home runs . in the first two months of the season, four homeruns were hit over the wall, all by opposing teams
- In February 1999, a cheetah chasing a fluffy toy dragged by a car was officially timed as to run 100 metres in 6.8 seconds
- Base ball was often written as two words before 1939, in a children's alphabet booking 1744 "B" is represented by base ball.
- In 1972, Mark Splitz, an American swimmer set the record of the maximum no . of gold medals in a single Olympics. This record still stands
- In 1968 Bob Seamin set the longest long jump 8.90m which unbroken till 1991 when Mike Powell jumped 8.95m.
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