Recording humanity Understanding the world / GLOBAL RECORDS DATABASE
Timeline events
2018
- World's Tallest Statue
2018-10-31
Statue of Unity · 182 m metres · Kevadia, Gujarat, India (Narmada river island)
ArchitectureCurrent
- World's Fastest Supercomputer
2018-06-01
Summit supercomputer · 122.3 PFLOPS (petaflops) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
TechnologyHistorical
2016
2016-08-14
Wayde van Niekerk · 43.03 seconds · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SportsCurrent
2016-01-01
Gotthard Base Tunnel · 57 km · Swiss Alps, Switzerland
TransportCurrent
2016-01-01
FAST · 500 m · Guizhou Province, China
TechnologyCurrent
2016-01-01
Michael Phelps · 28 Olympic medals
SportsCurrent
2015
2015-07-14
New Horizons · 2015 year · Pluto
SpaceCurrent
2015-04-21
Series L0 Maglev (A07) · 603 km/h · Yamanashi, Japan
TransportCurrent
2014
2014-11-12
Philae · 2014 year · Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
SpaceCurrent
2014-01-01
Malala Yousafzai · 17 years · Oslo, Norway
Human SocietyCurrent
2013
2013-01-01
Indianapolis Motor Speedway · 235,000 seats · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
ArchitectureCurrent
2012
2012-08-25
Voyager 1 · 2012-08-25 date · Heliosphere boundary
SpaceCurrent
2012-08-09
David Rudisha · 1:40.91 s · London
SportsCurrent
2012-07-01
Three Gorges Power Station · 22,500 MW MW · Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
TechnologyCurrent
2012-06-05
The Great Wall · 21,196.18 km kilometres · China
ArchitectureCurrent
2011
2011-12-12
King Fahd International Airport · 780 km² · near Dammam, Saudi Arabia
TransportCurrent
2011-06-01
Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge · 164.851 km · Danyang to Kunshan, Jiangsu, China
ArchitectureCurrent
2011-03-18
MESSENGER · 2011 year · Mercury
SpaceCurrent
2011-01-01
Antarctic Ice Sheet · about 14,000,000 km² · Antarctica
NatureCurrent
2010
2010-01-01
Burj Khalifa · 828 m · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ArchitectureCurrent
2009
2009-08-28
Yelena Isinbayeva · 5.06 m · Zurich
SportsCurrent
2009-08-20
Usain Bolt · 19.19 seconds · Berlin, Germany
SportsCurrent
2009-08-16
Usain Bolt · 9.58 seconds · Berlin, Germany
SportsCurrent
2008
2008-09-13
Barbora Špotáková · 72.28 m · Stuttgart
SportsCurrent
2008-09-10
Large Hadron Collider · 27 km kilometres · Near Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border, about 100 m underground
TechnologyCurrent
2007
2007-01-01
Airbus A380 · over 850 seats seats (all-economy certified max)
TechnologyCurrent
2006
2006-07-01
Qinghai–Tibet Railway · 5,072 m metres · Qinghai to Tibet, China; highest point at the Tanggula Pass
TransportCurrent
2004
2004-07-01
Cassini · 2004 year · Saturn
SpaceCurrent
2000
2000-11-01
Lærdal Tunnel · 24.509 km · Vestland county, Norway
TransportCurrent
1998
1998-07-14
Hicham El Guerrouj · 3:26.00 s · Rome
SportsCurrent
1997
1997-08-04
Jeanne Louise Calment · 122 years 164 days · Arles, France
Human SocietyCurrent
1996
1996-05-25
Jan Železný · 98.48 m · Jena
SportsCurrent
1995
1995-03-22
Valeri Polyakov · 437 days 17 hours 38 minutes days
SpaceCurrent
1993
1993-07-27
Javier Sotomayor · 2.45 m metres · Salamanca, Spain
SportsCurrent
1991
1991-08-30
Mike Powell · 8.95 m · National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan
SportsCurrent
1989
1989-08-25
Voyager 2 · 1989 year · Neptune
SpaceCurrent
1988
1988-09-29
Florence Griffith-Joyner · 21.34 seconds · Seoul, South Korea
SportsCurrent
1988-07-16
Florence Griffith-Joyner · 10.49 seconds · Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
SportsCurrent
1988-06-11
Galina Chistyakova · 7.52 m · Leningrad
SportsCurrent
1986
1986-08-30
Yuriy Sedykh · 86.74 m · Stuttgart
SportsCurrent
1986-01-24
Voyager 2 · 1986 year · Uranus
SpaceCurrent
1985
1985-10-06
Marita Koch · 47.60 seconds · Canberra, Australia
SportsCurrent
1985-09-11
ISEE-3 · 1985 year · Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
SpaceCurrent
1983
1983-07-26
Jarmila Kratochvílová · 1:53.28 s · Munich
SportsCurrent
1976
1976-07-20
Viking 1 · 1976 year · Mars
SpaceCurrent
1974
1974-03-29
Mariner 10 · 1974 year · Mercury
SpaceCurrent
1974-02-05
Mariner 10 · 1974 year · Venus
SpaceCurrent
1973
1973-12-04
Pioneer 10 · 1973 year · Jupiter
SpaceCurrent