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From the left to right and top to bottom: An overcrowded train transferring refugees from Delhi to Pakistan during the Partition of India; A map showing the aid which will be allocated to European countries in 1948 under the Marshall Plan; President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress, in a speech which would become known as the Truman Doctrine, officially beginning the Cold ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
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FINA World Cup Bonn, West Germany: 2 21.64 Steve Crocker United States: 21 March 1992 - Dallas, Texas, United States: 3 21.60 Mark Foster Great Britain: 17 February 1993: World Cup Sheffield, United Kingdom: 4 21.50 Alexander Popov Russia: 13 March 1994: World Cup Desenzano del Garda, Italy: 5 21.48 h: Mark Foster Great Britain: 13 December 1998
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
World Series – New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 3. June 27–28 – In the inaugural College World Series, California defeats Yale 2 games to 0 in the best-of-three series. The Yale team featured future U.S. President George Bush. Negro World Series – New York Cubans defeat the Cleveland Buckeyes, 4 games to 1.
Murray Rose's 4:25.9 set in a 25-metre pool on 12 Jan 1957 was only valid until 1 May the same year. Due to the new rule that records must be set in a 50-metre pool, and the fact that neither John Marshall's 4:26.9 from 1951, nor Ford Konno's 4:26.7 from 1954 were set in 50-metre pools, the WR reverted to Rose's 4:27.0 from 1956.
The Roswell incident is the subject of a conspiracy theory which alleges that United States Army Air Forces balloon debris recovered in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico, was actually a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft.