The oldest ice hockey player is Fred de Wit (Netherlands, b. 18 October 1935), who played as a goalkeeper for the Nijmegen Gladiators against the Eindhoven Kemphanen in a Nederlandse IJshockey Bond Third Division match in Nijmegen, Netherlands, on 12 January 2014, aged 78 years 86 days. The story of Fred’s attempted garnered him much publicity in his native Netherlands, with several media outlets sending reporters out to cover the game. Nijmegen Gladiators won the match 18-4 and Fred pulled off some great saves in
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The oldest human ancestor infant is “Dikika”, who died from unknown causes aged three and whose skeletal remains were discovered 3.3 million years later on 10 December 2000 by a team lead by paleoanthropologist, Zeresenay Alemseged (Ethiopia) in Dikika, in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia. The fossilised remains of the hominid infant include a skull, a complete torso, fingers and a foot, and is the most complete skeleton of her species, Australopithecus afarensis – that is the same species as 3.2 million-year-old Lucy, an adult
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The oldest hotel is the Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, Japan, a hot-spring hotel, which has been operating since 705 AD. The second oldest hotel is also in Japan.
The oldest horse twins are Taff and Griff, who were born in 1982 and are owned by the Veteran Horse Society, Cardigan, North Pembrokeshire, UK. Tiff and Griff are identical male twins of the Cremello breed, measuring 11.2 hh. Taff and Griff have spent their entire lives together giving children rides at London Zoo before coming to the Veteran Horse Society.
The world’s oldest horse stables were established by the Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II (1304-1237 BC) to breed horses for war, hunting and recreation. They were discovered in early 1999 by a joint German-Egyptian archeologicial team headed by Edgar Pusch (Germany) in the ancient city of Piramesse, in the Nile Delta, Egypt. The stables are also believed to be the largest, covering approximately 17,000 m² (182,986 ft²) and housing 460 horses at one time. The stables were built on a slant so the horse urine could
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The oldest competitive male hockey player is Roger Jones (New Zealand) (b. 4 February 1928) of the Auckland Hockey Association’s Western Disctricts Hockey Club Championship 3 Men team, who played his most recent competitive match in a 1-0 victory on 29 May 2011 at age 83. Jones has played as a member of the Western Districts Championship 3 Men since 2005.
Anne Graves (UK, b. 5 March 1935) is the oldest regular hockey player. She has played the whole of the 2010/11 season for the Stevenage Ladies 5’s in the Five Counties Division 7 Hockey League in Stevenage, UK, aged 76. Anne’s most recent competitive game was 7 Mar 2009, for Stevenage Ladies 5’s against Milton Keynes Ladies. She played 13 league games in the 2010/11 season playing all competitive fixtures.
The oldest holder of a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence is Robert Curry (UK, b.13 Nov 1919). His HGV class 1 licence was renewed on March 8, 2000 at the age of 80.
Herbert Carrington (USA, b. 17 October 1898), received a Medtronic Hancock II tissue valve on 10 June 1993 aged 94 years 129 days, which was still working on 15 June 2005 when he was 106 years 134 days. As of March 2006 we are aware that Herbert Carrington is in good health.
According to a study on cardiac surgery in nonagenarians and centenarians published in 2003 by the Department of Surgery of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia (USA), five centenarians were operated on for isolated cardiac bypass surgeries. The study was based on records of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database.