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Tag: Speed

3rd July 1938: Mallard sets world speed record for steam locomotives

The world speed record for locomotives – steam trains – was set on the 3^rd July 1938 by Number 4468 Mallard.

The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.

French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.