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May 30, 1911 - Ray Harroun wins the first running of the Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 74.59 mph, finishing in 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 8 seconds. His strategy was to maintain a steady speed of 75 mph, because through testing he found that tires wore out significantly faster at higher sp...

May 29, 1953 - The summit of Mount Everest is first reached, by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. They were the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded. Years before, when George Leigh-Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb...