The earliest Guinness World Record in a MMORPG was for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, which is an annual fund-raising event for Macmillan Cancer Support. On 28 September 2007, residents of Second Life joined in the coffee morning, which also saw the opening of the Second Life Macmillan cancer information centre within the virtual world.
The Chillstream range of controllers from Logitech have an integrated fan system that blows air through the vents in the pad to keep gamers’ hands cool. The Chillstream was designed for added comfort during extended gameplay sessions. It wasn’t well received, however, and some gamers derrided the controller as an ineffective gimmick. Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 2009.
An international team of eight surgeons stitched the hand of a dead man to the wrist of 48-year-old Clint Hallam (New Zealand) in 1998, after he had suffered a chainsaw accident nine years previously. The fourteen hour operation at Lyon, France involved attaching bones in the new hand to exposed bones in Hallam’s wrist. The bones were fixed using a metal plate with screws. Surgeons then stitched the two main arteries, the radial and cubital and upto 12 veins before connecting the nerves, muscles and
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The earliest hand-held video game was Mattel’s 1976 release Auto Race. The game had no moving parts, only electronic components.
The first player to score a hat-trick (three goals in a match) in a FIFA World Cup is Bert Patenaude (USA) playing for the USA in a match against Paraguay at the 1930 World Cup, in Estadio Gran Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay, on 17 July 1930. Until 2006, Argentinian Guillermo Stabile was credited with being the first player to hit a hat-trick in a World Cup match having scored three times in his country’s 6-3 victory over Mexico on 19 July 1930. But research by
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The earliest hand-held video game console to use an optical disc was the PlayStation Portable. The PlayStation Portable, first launched in Japan in December 2004, plays its games from an optical disc specially developed by Sony for the console. The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is a read only disc measuring 65 mm across and is held inside a plastic casing that slots into the top of the PSP. The disc is capable of holding up to 900 MB of data – 1.8GB for dual layer
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Dr. Bruce Reitz (USA) performed the first successful combined heart-lung transplant at Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, California, USA in 1981. The operation represented the culmination of more than two years of experiments.
Charles Frederic Worth, who left London for Paris in 1846, set up his own business in 1858 at 7, rue de la Paix. He is attributed as being the first haute couturier as he was the first designer to present his designs to his clients, by getting real models to parade in them. Worth initially worked in the cloth trade, cutting dresses for his wife Marie. Until the arrival of haute courture, dressmakers and designers had controlled the design and production of ladies’ garments, creating
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Billy Mitchell (USA) scored the first “perfect” PAC-MAN game (3,333,360 points) on 3 July 1999, four more players have matched it. The top players now consider it a greater accomplishment to achieve the perfect game in the fastest time: Top 5 “Perfect” pac-man Rankings: Chris Ayra (USA) 3:42:04 16/2/2000 Rick Fothergill (Can) 3:58:42 31/7/1999 Tim Baldarramos (USA) 4:45:15 8/8/2004 Donald Hayes (USA) 5:24:46 21/7/2005 Billy Mitchell (USA) 5:30:00 3/7/1999 GWR Video Gamer’s Edition 2008.
The first triple transplant patient was Davina Thompson (b. 28 February 1951 – d. 13 August 1998) of Rawmarsh, South Yorkshire, UK. On 17 December 1986 at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, she underwent surgery for seven hours by a team of 15 headed by chest surgeon Mr John Wallwork and Prof. Sir Roy Calne (both UK) . She died at the age of 47 on 13 August 1998.