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speed records - events| 29 March 1927 | USA, UK | The British driver Henry Segrave establishes a new world land-speed record of 327.96 kph/203.79 mph in a 1,000 hp Sunbeam, at Daytona Beach, Florida. He is the first person to set a land-speed record in excess of 200 mph. | | 17 July–31 December 1964 | UK, Australia | The British car and speedboat enthusiast Donald Campbell emulates his father Malcolm Campbell's achievement of holding the world land- and water-speed records simultaneously. He sets a new land-speed record of 648.77 kph/403.14 mph on Lake Eyre salt flats, Australia. Later in the year he reaches 444.615 kph/276.279 mph on Lake Dumbleyung, Australia, to break the water-speed record for the seventh time since 1955. | | 4 October 1983 | UK, USA | British driver Richard Noble breaks the world one-mile land speed record in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, in his Thrust 2 jet car, averaging a speed of 1,019.44 kph/633.468 mph over the required two runs. | | 2 July 2002 | | At his sixth attempt, US millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett becomes the first man to fly a balloon solo and non-stop around the world, crossing the west Australian coastline in his Spirit of Freedom after covering more than 19,000 miles in just less than two weeks. |
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