Incredible Feats

Devising a secret weapon for competition, snowboarder Shaun White perfects a new trick and uses it to win gold in the X-games and then the Winter Olympics.

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After various misfortunes prevented him from winning, the late, great NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt finally won his first Daytona 500 on his 20th attempt.

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It took place over three long days. It was over eleven hours of tennis. Twelve records were broken. It’s the story of the 2010 Wimbledon match between Nicholas Mahut and John Isner that became the longest in history.

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For years, Caesarean Sections were mostly performed in hopes of saving either the mother or the baby. But in 1826, Dr. James Barry became the first British doctor to perform the procedure where both the mother and child lived. 

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In 1922, 16-year-old Aloha Wanderwell participated in the “Million Dollar Wager” — a race around the world in a Ford Model T. It ended in 1927 with her holding the Guinness World Record as the first woman to circle the globe by car.

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In 1928, no one had ever successfully flown under New York’s East River bridges — though many had tried and failed. 17-year-old Elinor Smith became the first.

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The internet’s favorite skateboarding icon practiced, failed, and even broke a bone while attempting to land a trick he invented. For fourteen years. Then came the 1999 X Games.

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As a young researcher, Jane Goodall shocked the scientific community with a revolutionary discovery about chimpanzees. 

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Sarah “Paddy” Jones retired from professional dance in the 1950s to raise a family, but decades later, she returned to the stage — in a very big way.

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In 1922, former real estate agent and “Human Spider” Bill Strother pulled off a top-secret movie stunt so dangerous that onlookers passed out while watching it.

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