The May 6, 2010 flash crash spiked at 2.6 million messages per second, setting a new record.
It was only by perfecting his odd technique on his own that Fosbury won the gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, setting a new record on worldwide television, and reinventing high-jumping overnight.
After Tactical Nuclear Penguin was released, German brewery Schorschbrau replied by setting a new world record with a 40% alcohol by volume wheat beer.
Anstey showed his intentions from the outset by setting a new lap record of 17 minutes, 38seconds on the opening lap, a fact made even more remarkable given it was from a standing start.
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Or, rather, lengths, by setting a new US record for flight duration of 49.9 seconds with its Gamera II rotorcraft.
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Australian schoolboy Ian Thorpe came within one one-hundredth of a second of setting a new world record in the men's 200m freestyle.
In 1978, two Soviet cosmonauts returned to Earth from the Salyut 6 space station after setting a new endurance record of 139 days, 14 hours.
In the last day of London's swimming competition, the American women won the 4x100-meter medley relay race, setting a new world record with a time of 3:52.05.
Having won the 3, 000m gold two years ago, Farah is favourite to triumph once more after setting a new European record over 5, 000m in Birmingham on Saturday.
He won three more golds in his next major international outing, the 2006 IPC World Championships in the Netherlands, setting a new world record over 200m in the process.
The event that attracted the least number of votes was AOL's Live 8 broadcast in July 2005 when five million people watched the poverty awareness concerts online, setting a new Web record.
The second Audi, piloted by Capello Scot McNish and seven-time winner Kristensen, led for over 16 hours, with McNish setting a new lap record of three minutes, 27.204 seconds on the 8.45-mile circuit along the way.
But on 30 October, more than 500 visitors to the RHS in Surrey played 251 matches, setting a new Guinness World Record.
Yet vinyl continued its improbable rise (which I wrote about more extensively last year) as LP sales soared 17.7% to 4.6 million, setting a new SoundScan Era record for the fifth consecutive year.
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Drogba narrowly beat Eto'o to the 2009 award but the Inter Milan forward is favourite to win this year's accolade having won the UEFA Champions League and Serie A title, while also setting a new goal scoring record in captaining Cameroon at the African Nations Cup finals in Angola.
The "Colne Cyclone" has twice been part of a world-record breaking team this year - in the team pursuit final at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne and on Thursday, as part of the Great Britain Olympic team, setting a new world-record time during the men's team pursuit track cycling qualifier.
Cullen, who is a confirmed entry for the 10K event, is in the form of her life after setting a new Irish indoor 3000 metres record at the weekend.
The suspension was lifted too late for Pistorius to compete at the Beijing Olympics but he made his mark at the Paralympics that year, winning golds and setting new Paralympics records in the 100m and 200m as well as a world record in the 400m.
Surging prices and record setting days are nothing new to the Street, but this advance was a little different.
Athletics saw numerous Commonwealth Games records being overcome, from Welsh star Iwan Thomas setting a new 400m mark, and Trinidad and Tobago's Ato Boldon smashing Linford Christie's 100m Games record, to the English sprint team's record-breaking performance in the 4x100 relay.
When the staff gathered to celebrate a record-setting day, we were handed glasses of Champagne, and felt we'd made new friends.
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