Timeline

2019-01-01

Louvre · 360,000 m² · Paris, France

2018-10-31

Statue of Unity · 182 m metres · Kevadia, Gujarat, India (Narmada river island)

2018-06-01

Summit supercomputer · 122.3 PFLOPS (petaflops) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

2016-08-14

Wayde van Niekerk · 43.03 seconds · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2016-01-01

Gotthard Base Tunnel · 57 km · Swiss Alps, Switzerland

2016-01-01

FAST · 500 m · Guizhou Province, China

2016-01-01

Michael Phelps · 28 Olympic medals

2015-07-14

New Horizons · 2015 year · Pluto

2015-04-21

Series L0 Maglev (A07) · 603 km/h · Yamanashi, Japan

2014-11-12

Philae · 2014 year · Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

2014-01-01

Malala Yousafzai · 17 years · Oslo, Norway

2013-01-01

Indianapolis Motor Speedway · 235,000 seats · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

2012-08-25

Voyager 1 · 2012-08-25 date · Heliosphere boundary

2012-08-09

David Rudisha · 1:40.91 s · London

2012-07-01

Three Gorges Power Station · 22,500 MW MW · Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei Province, China

2012-06-05

The Great Wall · 21,196.18 km kilometres · China

2011-12-12

King Fahd International Airport · 780 km² · near Dammam, Saudi Arabia

2011-06-01

Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge · 164.851 km · Danyang to Kunshan, Jiangsu, China

2011-03-18

MESSENGER · 2011 year · Mercury

2011-01-01

Antarctic Ice Sheet · about 14,000,000 km² · Antarctica

2010-01-01

Burj Khalifa · 828 m · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2009-08-28

Yelena Isinbayeva · 5.06 m · Zurich

2009-08-20

Usain Bolt · 19.19 seconds · Berlin, Germany

2009-08-16

Usain Bolt · 9.58 seconds · Berlin, Germany

2008-09-13

Barbora Špotáková · 72.28 m · Stuttgart

2008-09-10

Large Hadron Collider · 27 km kilometres · Near Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border, about 100 m underground

2007-01-01

Airbus A380 · over 850 seats seats (all-economy certified max)

2006-07-01

Qinghai–Tibet Railway · 5,072 m metres · Qinghai to Tibet, China; highest point at the Tanggula Pass

2004-07-01

Cassini · 2004 year · Saturn

2000-11-01

Lærdal Tunnel · 24.509 km · Vestland county, Norway

1998-07-14

Hicham El Guerrouj · 3:26.00 s · Rome

1997-08-04

Jeanne Louise Calment · 122 years 164 days · Arles, France

1996-05-25

Jan Železný · 98.48 m · Jena

1995-03-22

Valeri Polyakov · 437 days 17 hours 38 minutes days

1993-07-27

Javier Sotomayor · 2.45 m metres · Salamanca, Spain

1991-08-30

Mike Powell · 8.95 m · National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan

1989-08-25

Voyager 2 · 1989 year · Neptune

1988-09-29

Florence Griffith-Joyner · 21.34 seconds · Seoul, South Korea

1988-07-16

Florence Griffith-Joyner · 10.49 seconds · Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

1988-06-11

Galina Chistyakova · 7.52 m · Leningrad

1986-08-30

Yuriy Sedykh · 86.74 m · Stuttgart

1986-01-24

Voyager 2 · 1986 year · Uranus

1985-10-06

Marita Koch · 47.60 seconds · Canberra, Australia

1985-09-11

ISEE-3 · 1985 year · Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner

1983-07-26

Jarmila Kratochvílová · 1:53.28 s · Munich

1976-07-20

Viking 1 · 1976 year · Mars

1974-03-29

Mariner 10 · 1974 year · Mercury

1974-02-05

Mariner 10 · 1974 year · Venus

1973-12-04

Pioneer 10 · 1973 year · Jupiter