At 35 years 8 days, Alex Rodriguez, (b. 27 July 1975, USA) became the youngest player in baseball history to reach 600 career home runs when he homered off Shaun Marcum (USA) pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays (Canada) at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York (USA) on 4 August 2010. The next youngest was Babe Ruth at 36 years 196 days. Rodriguez is also the youngest player to hit 500 career home runs (32 years 8 days), accomplished off Kyle Davies (USA) pitching for
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At age 24 years 59 days, Josh Smith (USA, b. 5 December 1985) is the youngest player in NBA history to reach 1,000 career blocked shots. He reached the mark while playing for the Atlanta Hawks (USA) on 2 February 2010.
The youngest player to participate in a competitive darts tournament is Nick Stoekenbroek (b. 11 May 1989) (Netherlands) who at the age of twelve played in the Dutch Open, Veldhoven, Netherlands on 5-7 February 2002. Stoekenbroek reached the last 128 out of 2,654 competitors.
The record for the youngest published male author is 5 years and 302 days and was achieved by Adauto Kovalski da Silva (Brazil) who released his book Aprender é Fácil on 15 October 2005.
The youngest wrestler to win the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Championship is Brock Lesnar (USA) aged 25 years and 44 days on 25 August 2002.
The youngest alpine skiier to win an Olympic gold is Kjetil Andre Aamodt (Norway, b. 2 September 1971), who won the first of his four career Olympic golds in Albertville, France, on 16 February 1992, aged 20 years 167 days. He won it in the super giant slalom event.
At 19 years 245 days Sidney Crosby (Canada, b. 7 August 1987) of the Pittsburgh Penguins (USA) became the youngest player in NHL history ever to win a league scoring title, when the final game of the 2006-07 season was played on 9 April 2007.
The largest blood donation involved 43,732 participants and was organised by Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan (India) at Dera Sacha Sauda, Haryana, India, on 8 August 2010. Each participant donated a unit of blood.
The fastest recorded lacrosse shot was 111 mph (178.64 km/h), most recently by Paul Rabil (USA) at the Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game’s Fastest Shot competition in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on 8 July 2010. Rabil was also the first ever recorded to hit 111 mph at the 2009 competition in Denver, Colorado, USA. The competition requires that the competitor must shoot from 10 yards beyond goal and that the shot must successfully enter the goal.
The Xinhua Zidian (New China Character Dictionary) is the world’s best-selling dictionary. The pocket-sized dictionary of Chinese characters comprises 3,500 compounds and over 11,200 logograms and has sold well in excess of 400 million copies.