This Day in History

[AeroVault]

1986: Voyager 2, 1st Uranus fly-by
What can I say, I'm an aerospace nut.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sp ... 06.23.html

The All-American Miler
By WILLIAM N. WALLACE
June 23, 1967 BAKERSFIELD, Calif.-Jim Ryun, the precocious 20-year-old sophomore from the University of Kansas, set a world record for the one-mile run tonight at the Amateur Athletic Union's national track and field championships here. Ryun, winning by some 40 yards, ran the classic distance in 3 minutes 51.1 seconds. That was two-tenths of a second faster than Ryun's recognized world mark of 3:51.3, set a year ago at Berkeley, Calif.

It was a tremendous race that saw the first seven finishers run the distance in under four minutes. The seventh-place finisher, 17-year-old Martin Liquori of Essex Catholic High School in Cedar Grove, N.J., posted a time of 3:59.8. Jim Grelle, a seasoned miler from Portland, Ore., had a time of 3:56.1 for second place, then came Dave Willborn, University of Oregon, 3:56.2; Tom von Ruden, Oklahoma State, 3:56.9; Roscoe Divine, Oregon, 3:57.2; Sam Bair, Kent State, 3:58.6, and Liquori.

Paul Wilson, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Southern California, also set a world's record. Wilson cleared 17 feet 8 inches in the pole vault event to eclipse the former mark of 17-7 set by his teammate, Bob Seagren, last June 10. Ryun's quarter times were 59.2 seconds, 59.8, 58.6, and then a blasting 53.5 as he went for the world mark. He next took a leisurely jog around Bakersfield College's Memorial Stadium as the crowd of 10,000 cheered him mightily. Ryun had taken the lead just after the start, a lead that grew longer and longer. As the collective quarter times were announced over the public address system, the crowd sensed a record was at hand and urged on the slight, tall, dark-haired Ryun. Said Ryun afterwards, "I felt well and I wanted to run a fast race." That was succinct and simple.

On June 5, 1964, at Compton, Calif., eight men ran a mile race in under four minutes. Ryun, then a 17-year-old junior at Wichita (Kan.) East High School, placed eighth. His time was 3:59. Tonight's effort was Ryun's 12th mile run since then under four minutes and Grelle's 19th in his longer career.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... /507280899

1994 - Sergei Bubka sets a world pole vault record for the 35th time in his career at a meet in Sestriere, Italy. Bubka soars 20 feet, 1 3/4 inches, adding a half-inch to his old mark set in Tokyo in 1992.

[ECVaulter]

I thought he jumped 6.14 on the 31st of July.

[rainbowgirl28]

I didn't look very closely... they have a whole week's worth of them. That last one was indeed July 31st.

This one is August 5th

1991 - Sergei Bubka becomes the first to clear 20 feet outdoors in the pole vault, breaking his own world record by a half-inch at the Galan track meet in Malmo, Sweden.

[Scott Go Pre]

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

August 12, 1877 is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders. It is more likely, however, that work on the model was not finished until November or December of that year, since Edison did not file for the patent until December 24, 1877.

[Scott Go Pre]

Today on August 25, 2004, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva clears 4.91m (16' 1.25") to win the gold medal in the 27th Olympics.

[rainbowgirl28]

LOL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... EIQ6K1.DTL

1930

Sept. 10: Four San Quentin prison records were shattered at the annual field meet and athletic carnival held in the prison grounds yesterday, which was attended by 4,000 convicts, members of the Olympic Club which yearly sponsors the event, and invited guests. The 50-yard and 880-yard dashes, the hop-skip-and-jump and the pole vault records were all set anew as three major teams competed in the various events, representing the shops, the mess hall and the jute mill.

[Scott Go Pre]

Today, on September 10th, 1984, Scott Crews (a.k.a. Scott Go Pre) was born. Today marks his 21st birthday.

[bvpv07]

Happy birthday & have fun!

[Mecham]

Big 21! Happy Birthday man.

[pelle3]

12-Feb-2005:

Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia set a world record in the indoor pole vault, clearing 15 feet, 11 3/4 inches (4.87m) at the Pole Vault Stars event in Kiev, Ukraine. Isinbayeva broke the mark of 15-11 1/4 (4.85m) she set in 2004 at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest.