July 01, 2020

RotD: 1st July - First durable colour photograph, first flight across the English Channel, highest-grossing movie franchise, most people thanked at an Oscars acceptance speech, most expensive golf ball, youngest female hole-in-one, fastest mile in reverse

9 minutes

Craig welcomes in July and celebrates International Tartan Day with a colour photo taken in 1861; he wishes a happy birthday to English Channel-flyer Louis Blériot, and actors David "Darth Vader" Prowse and Olivia de Havilland (who thanked more people at the Oscars than anyone else); plus, from this day, a leathery, feathery golf ball that sold for £32,000, the five-year-old hole-in-oner, the fastest mile driven in reverse and the first TV commercial.

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By Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief at Guinness World Records

July 01, 2020

RotD: 1st July - First durable colour photograph, first flight across the English Channel, highest-grossing movie franchise, most people thanked at an Oscars acceptance speech, most expensive golf ball, youngest female hole-in-one, fastest mile in reverse

9 minutes

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RotD: 1st July - First durable colour photograph, first flight across the English Channel, highest-grossing movie franchise, most people thanked at an Oscars acceptance speech, most expensive golf ball, youngest female hole-in-one, fastest mile in reverse

RotD: 1st July - First durable colour photograph, first flight across the English Channel, highest-grossing movie franchise, most people thanked at an Oscars acceptance speech, most expensive golf ball, youngest female hole-in-one, fastest mile in reverse