Timeline

2011-06-01

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

2011-03-19

Nagoya City Science Museum Planetarium · 35.02 m · Nagoya City Science Museum, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

2011-03-18

MESSENGER · 2011 year · Mercury

2011-02-05

Denis Kulyash · 177.5 km/h · Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011-01-01

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

2010-09-24

Aroldis Chapman · 105.8 mph · San Diego, California, United States

2010-07-01

United States · about 43.947 million people · United States

2010-06-24

2010 Isner–Mahut Wimbledon match · 665 minutes · Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom

2010-06-13

Hayabusa spacecraft · First achievement · Asteroid Itokawa; return capsule recovered near Woomera, Australia

2010-01-01

Burj Khalifa · 828 m · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2010-01-01

China Jinping Underground Laboratory · about 2400 metres · Jinping Mountain tunnel, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China

2010-01-01

Capital Gate · 18 degrees · Abu Dhabi, UAE

2010-01-01

Antakya Roman Mosaic · 1050 m² · Necmi Asfuroğlu Archaeology Museum, Antakya, Hatay, Türkiye

2009-09-10

SLS Five-Segment Solid Rocket Booster · 14590 kN · Northrop Grumman test facility, Promontory, Utah, USA

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

2009-03-16

Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) · 10.4 m · La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain

2009-03-01

National Ignition Facility · more than 2 million joules · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, United States

2008-10-14

Dubai International Airport Terminal 3 · 1,185,000 m² · Dubai International Airport, UAE

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

2006-07-01

Tanggula Railway Station · 5068 m · Tanggula Railway Station, Amdo County, Nagqu, Tibet, China

2005-09-04

Juan Pablo Montoya · 372.6 km/h · Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy

2004-07-01

Cassini · 2004 year · Saturn

2004-02-29

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · 11 awards · Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

2003-02-22

Shoaib Akhtar · 161.3 km/h · Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa

2002-08-17

Tanya Streeter · 160 m · Off Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands

2002-06-30

Brazil men's national football team · 5 titles

2002-05-01

Bailong Elevator · 326 m · Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China

2001-05-27

Roman Šebrle · 9026 points · Götzis, Vorarlberg, Austria

2000-11-01

Lærdal Tunnel · 24.509 km · Vestland county, Norway

2000-08-23

Green Bank Telescope · 100 m · Green Bank, West Virginia, USA

2000-07-01

Tokyo · 30.303 million people · Tokyo, Japan

1999-07-04

Tomáš Dvořák · 8994 points · Prague, Czech Republic

1998-07-14

Hicham El Guerrouj · 3:26.00 s · Rome

1997-10-15

ThrustSSC · 1227.985 km/h · Black Rock Desert, Nevada, United States

1997-08-04

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

1997-01-01

Odate Jukai Dome · 178 m · Odate Jukai Dome

1996-05-25

Jan Železný · 98.48 m · Jena

1995-08-07

Jonathan Edwards · 18.29 m · Gothenburg, Sweden

1995-03-22

Valeri Polyakov · 437 days 17 hours 38 minutes days

1995-01-01

Qamdo Bamda 5,500-metre runway · 5500 m · Qamdo Bamda Airport, Tibet, China

1994-05-06

Channel Tunnel · about 37 km · United Kingdom–France, English Channel

1994-01-01

Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon · 5382 m · Tibet, China

1993-07-27

Javier Sotomayor · 2.45 m metres · Salamanca, Spain

1993-01-01

Central–Mid-Levels Escalator and Walkway System · about 800 m · Central to Mid-Levels, Central and Western District, Hong Kong SAR, China

1991-12-22

Klinck Automatic Weather Station · -69.6 °C · Klinck Automatic Weather Station, central Greenland Ice Sheet