Mobile computing is exploding faster than any major technology in history.
It was the 27th time in major league history that brothers homered in the same game, but only the second time they went deep in consecutive at-bats.
No team in Major League history had ever before hit three grand slams in one game, but the Yankees did it on that day.
To put it bluntly, Merida is the first animated princess in major American film history who does not fall in love, who does not act on the basis of romantic motivation, and who does not (mild spoiler alert) choose a handsome mate in the end.
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Wales has only ever qualified for one major tournament in its history, the World Cup back in 1958.
After McIlroy's amazing display, there have now been 24 rounds of 63 in major championship history.
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Elephants have played a major part in Indian history and culture.
His agent, Scott Boras, never known for modest statements about his clients, says "A-Rod" has "icon value" and is the best shortstop in Major League history.
Thirteen years after he lost a play-off for the USPGA Championship to Mark Brooks at Valhalla, the American can now become the oldest champion in major history.
Ankiel is among four players in major league history to make at least 40 starts as a pitcher and hit 40 homers, with Babe Ruth the standout of that group.
The turnout was estimated by Israeli election officials to be around 62 percent for the 4.5 million eligible voters, the lowest turnout of any major election in the history of Israel.
McGwire's banner year came during one of the biggest power periods in Major League history, when balls were flying out of the park at a rate of once every 34 times at bat.
"Those episodes proved to be the single most important stimulus for the major transformations in human history, " said Weiss, who digs through the traces of vanished empires for evidence of these climatic events.
It is not only a series of popes but also a number of prominent secular thinkers who believe that the birth-control pill has been one of the major milestones in human history a diverse group that runs from public intellectuals of a previous generation like Walter Lippmann to such contemporary scholars as Francis Fukuyama and Robert Putnam.
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They would represent the biggest height disparity between any two teammates in major-league history, were it not for the appearance of a dwarf in a game in 1951.
Wales, though, have only qualified for the latter stages of major tournaments twice in their history.
Switzerland has not had major ethnic violence in recent history because everybody is rich and happy.
Boston's streak of 794 regular-season sellouts also is the longest in major pro sports history.
The previous mark in Major League Baseball history was 455 set by the Cleveland Indians from 1995-2001.
His K-rate of 10.0 per game is, on its own, the sixth-best such mark by a 24-year-old in major-league history.
There are a few major communications revolutions in human history that qualify.
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Sale is only the fifth player in major-league history to be listed at 6-foot-6 or taller and 180 pounds or fewer, according to Baseball-Reference.com.
That put him on pace to finish this season with more home runs (56) and a higher slugging percentage (.744) than any 20-year-old in major-league history.
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If they held over a full season, the Braves' strikeout rate would be the second highest in major-league history and their contact rate would be the lowest by any team since 2003.
The reality is, the 2011 Red Sox now have the distinction as being the team with the most epic late season collapse in Major League Baseball history, which began a period of intense scrutiny, finger pointing and outright disdain from fans and media alike.
Price flashed his skills in last year's World Series, becoming one of four players in history to earn his first major league win in the postseason.
There are moments in business, just as there are moments in history and in society, when major change occurs, when rules change, markets change, demographics change.
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The "completion of this transaction...represents a major milestone in Cairn's history, " Simon Thomson, chief executive of Cairn Energy said.
Named head coach in 1966, he'd won two national titles and 409 games, the most victories in major college-football history.
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