Oldest person to win a Snowboarding World Cup event
The oldest individual winner of a Snowboarding World Cup event Ursula Bruhin (Switzerland) aged 35 years 273 days at Le Relais, Canada on 17 December 2005.
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Oldest person to win a NHRA Pro Stock event
At 62 years 234 days, Warren Johnson (USA, b. 7 July 1943) became the oldest driver to win a National Hot Road Association (NHRA) event. He won the Checker Schuck’s Kragen NHRA Nationals at Firebird International Raceway, in Chandler, Arizona, on 26 February 2006.
Oldest person to win a class championship at the World Horseshoe Pitchers Tournament
Bob Champion (USA, b. 13 October 1917) became the oldest person to win a class championship at the World Horseshoe Pitchers Tournament 2006 at the age of 88 in Gillette, Wyoming, USA.
Oldest person to visit the North Pole
The oldest person to visit the North Pole is Dorothy Davenhill Hirsch (USA; born 11 May 1915) who reached the North Pole aboard the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal on 28 August 2004, aged 89 years and 109 days. Dorothy Davenhill Hirsch was 89 years and 109 days when she visited the North Pole.
Oldest person to visit both Poles
Major Will Lacy (b. July 17, 1907) of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, went to the North Pole on April 9, 1990 at the age of 82 and the South Pole on December 20, 1991 at the age of 84. On both trips he arrived and left by light aircraft.
Oldest Pre-Columbian calendar still in use
Sacred round Mesoamerican calendars that is, those devised by the pre-Columbian cultures of present-day Mexico and Central America continue to be used in one form or another to the present day, having passed from the Olmecs (1500400 BC) to the Maya (up to AD 900) and then to the Aztecs (up to the 1500s; pictured is an Aztec calendar at the Mexico Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City). The Maya used three inter-locking calendars that created ‘Great Cycles’ of time. The present cycle Continue reading →
Oldest practicing barber
Anthony Mancinelli (USA, b. 2 March 1911) has been a practising barber since 1924 and continues to work today at the age of 96 years and 237 days. Age is as of record approval date (25 October 2007).
Oldest pot plant
The world’s oldest potted plant is a prickly cycad (Encephalartos altensteinii), which was brought from South Africa to the UK and planted in 1775. The cycad is currently on display in the Palm House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Surrey, UK . These tree-fern like Cycads are often called ‘living fossils’ as they are amongst the oldest surviving species of plants; it is known that they were growing over 200 million years ago during the Permian era. Cycads are dioecious meaning their male and female reproductive Continue reading →
Oldest population
Population figures for 2009 reveal that in Japan, the median age – that is, the age at which there are an equal number of people above and below – is a record high of 44.7. In second place is Germany, with a median age of 44.3 years.
Oldest player to score in a Champions League final
The oldest player to score a goal in a Champions League final is Paolo Maldini (Italy, b. 26 June 1968) aged 36 years and 333 days playing for AC Milan against Liverpool on 25 May 2005.