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Timeline events 2022 World's Largest Permanent IMAX Cinema Screen by Area 2022-12-06
Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX Screen · 814.8 m² · Traumpalast Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Culture & Entertainment Current
World's Longest Narrow-Gauge Passenger Train 2022-10-29
Rhaetian Railway · 1906.375 m · Albula Railway, Graubünden, Switzerland (Preda to Alvaneu, via Landwasser Viaduct)
Transport Current
Men's Greatest Distance Cycled in One Hour 2022-10-08
Filippo Ganna · 56.792 km · Tissot Velodrome, Grenchen, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland
Sports Current
World's Highest-Capacity Solar Power Facility 2022-06-26
Solar Park of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture · 8,430 MW · Gonghe County, Qinghai, China
Technology Current
Men's 100 m Backstroke World Record (Long Course) 2022-06-20
Thomas Ceccon · 51.60 seconds · Budapest, Hungary
Sports Current
World's Fastest Supercomputer 2022-06-01
Frontier supercomputer · 1.102 EFLOPS (exaflops) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
Technology Historical
World's Largest Single Living Organism by Area 2022-06-01
Shark Bay Posidonia australis seagrass · about 200 km² · Shark Bay, Western Australia
Nature Current
Longest Women's Triple Jump 2022-03-20
Yulimar Rojas · 15.74 m · Belgrade
Sports Current
World's Longest Bridge Span 2022-03-18
1915 Çanakkale Bridge · 2,023 metres · Çanakkale, Türkiye
Transport Current
World's Longest Suspension Bridge Main Span 2022-03-18
1915 Çanakkale Bridge · 2023 metres · Çanakkale Province, Türkiye, between Gelibolu and Lapseki
Architecture Current
2021 Space Telescope with the Largest Primary Mirror 2021-12-25
James Webb Space Telescope · about 6.5 metres
Space Current
Heaviest Men's Weightlifting Total Ever 2021-12-17
Lasha Talakhadze · 492 kg · Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Sports Current
World's Largest Solar Telescope by Clear Aperture 2021-11-22
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope · 4 m · Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory, Maui, Hawaii, USA
Technology Current
Quietest Anechoic Chamber by Measured Ambient Noise 2021-11-19
Orfield Laboratories Anechoic Chamber · -24.9 dBA · Orfield Laboratories Anechoic Chamber
Technology Current
World's Tallest Observation Wheel 2021-10-21
Ain Dubai · 250 m · Bluewaters Island, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Architecture Current
World's Best-Selling Album 2021-08-20
Michael Jackson · 67 million units
Culture & Entertainment Current
Men's 100 m Butterfly World Record (Long Course) 2021-07-31
Caeleb Dressel · 49.45 seconds · Tokyo, Japan
Sports Current
World's Largest Single-Unit-Capacity Hydro-generator 2021-06-28
One-million-kilowatt hydro-generating unit at Baihetan Hydropower Station · 1,000 MW · Jinsha River on the border of Ningnan County, Sichuan Province, and Qiaojia County, Yunnan Province, China (Baihetan Hydropower Station)
Technology Current
World's Deepest Swimming Pool for Diving 2021-06-27
Deep Dive Dubai · 60.02 m · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Architecture Current
Fastest Recorded Squash Ball Speed 2021-06-11
David Hilton III · 267.151 km/h · Philadelphia, United States
Sports Current
First Powered, Controlled Flight on Another Planet 2021-04-19
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter · First achievement · Wright Brothers Field, Jezero Crater, Mars
Space Current
World's Longest Book Title by Character Count 2021-03-12
Book by N. Srinivasan · 27,978 characters · Chennai, India
Culture & Entertainment Current
Longest Uninterrupted Operating Run by a Nuclear Reactor 2021-02-05
Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Unit 1 · 1106 days · Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, Clarington, Ontario, Canada
Technology Current
World's Most Populous Country 2021-01-01
China · about 1.427 billion people · China
Human Society Historical
2020 Highest Mountain Elevation 2020-12-08
Mount Qomolangma · 8,848.86 m · China-Nepal boundary
Nature Current
Longest Scheduled Nonstop Passenger Air Route 2020-11-09
New York JFK–Singapore Changi nonstop air route · about 15,349 km · JFK Airport, New York, USA to Changi Airport, Singapore
Transport Current
Fastest Men's 5000 Metres 2020-08-14
Joshua Cheptegei · 12:35.36 s · Monaco
Sports Current
World's Fastest Supercomputer 2020-06-01
Fugaku supercomputer · 415.53 PFLOPS (petaflops) · RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Kobe, Japan
Technology Historical
Longest Recorded Siphonophore Colony 2020-03-16
2020 Ningaloo giant siphonophore colony · up to 119 m · Off Ningaloo, Western Australia
Nature Current
World's Tallest Residential Building 2020-01-01
Central Park Tower · 472.4 m · Manhattan, New York City, United States
Architecture Current
2019 World's Longest Subsea Road Tunnel 2019-12-30
Ryfylke Tunnel · about 14.3 km · Rogaland, Norway, between Stavanger and Strand
Transport Current
Deepest Subsea Road Tunnel 2019-12-30
Ryfylke Tunnel Route · 292 m below sea level · Solbakk–Hundvåg, Rogaland, Norway
Transport Current
World's Fastest Elevator 2019-09-10
Ultra-high-speed elevator at Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre · 1,260 m/min · Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Technology Current
Fastest Men's 100 Metres Breaststroke (Long Course) 2019-07-21
Adam Peaty · 56.88 seconds · Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Sports Current
Most FIFA Women's World Cup Titles by a National Team 2019-07-07
United States women's national soccer team · 4 titles
Sports Current
Tallest Mosque Minaret in the World 2019-04-29
Djamaa el Djazaïr minaret · 264.3 m · Great Mosque of Algiers, Algeria
Architecture Current
World's Highest Extra-long Road Tunnel 2019-04-26
Mila Mountain Tunnel · 4774 m · Mila Mountain Tunnel
Transport Current
World's Tallest Indoor Waterfall 2019-04-17
Jewel Rain Vortex · 40 metres · Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore
Architecture Current
World's Largest Fixed-Wing Aircraft by Wingspan 2019-04-13
Stratolaunch Roc · 385 ft · Mojave Air and Space Port, California, United States
Transport Current
First Image of a Black Hole 2019-04-10
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration · First achievement
Technology Current
First Soft Landing on the Far Side of the Moon 2019-01-03
Chang'e 4 lander · First achievement · Von Kármán crater, far side of the Moon
Space Current
World's Tallest Tree 2019-01-01
Hyperion · 116.07 m · Redwood National Park, California, USA
Nature Current
World's Highest-Voltage Power Transmission Project 2019-01-01
Changji-Guquan ±1,100 kV UHVDC Transmission Project · ±1,100 kV · China (Changji, Xinjiang to Xuancheng, Anhui)
Technology Current
World's Largest Art Museum by Total Area 2019-01-01
Louvre · 360,000 m² · Paris, France
Culture & Entertainment Current
World's Tallest All-Timber Building 2019-01-01
Mjøstårnet · 85.4 metres · Brumunddal, Norway
Architecture Current