Viola Davis just earned her place in the record books.
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Not every year can be one for the record books.
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But Ko's assault on the record books didn't end there.
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The second will be the one for the record books.
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It was a wild week, one for the record books.
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Gartner's mark needs to be restored in the record books.
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As bad bets go, it was one for the record books.
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"This is like no storm in the record books," he said.
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The group date this week was one for the record books.
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Meanwhile, flat Finland acquires a new entry in its record books.
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The 2152 Olympics have been one for the record books, literally.
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From the jump, Ovechkin has been torching the NHL record books.
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"I'm well aware of the record books, unfortunately," she told Vogue.
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As bad bets go, it was one for the record books.
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The Columbus Zoo's new baby polar is ready for the record books.
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And he expects 2018 to be another one for the record books.
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"This is going to be one for the record books," Sater said.
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The oldest cat ever, According to record books, was named Creme Puff.
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Simone Manuel's 100-meter freestyle win was one for the record books.
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But things get confusing when you look at the team's record books.
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He wants a legacy beyond the record books of a niche sport.
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The storm is expected to be one for Hong Kong's record books.
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Slice later tested positive for steroids, wiping the victory from the record books.
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President Barack Obama's farewell address last night was one for the record books.
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A few years prior, the perfecto would have counted in the record books.
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He'd won his class and wrote the Thompson name into racing's record books.
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Well, this was definitely a (Not My) President's Day for the record books.
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On Saturday night, he secured a place in the Boston Bruins' record books.
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Vacca's client list reads like a page out of the N.H.L. record books.
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Mr. Kearns and others have now vaulted Star Citizen into the record books.
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The Broadway season that ended on Sunday was one for the record books.
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The country's most expensive home sale is now officially in the record books.
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This week's fires have been singeing their way into the record books as well.
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Last year's Pride March in New York City was one for the record books.
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At Bonneville you have to make the trip twice to enter the record books.
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Yet all the resulting stats still count, inflating scores and re-writing record books.
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Quine cannot quite believe his name is already etched in the team's record books.
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But the record books will show Saturday's result in the Axalta Faster. Tougher. Brighter.
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Instead, scores like 27-27, 21954-240 and 223-222 dot the record books.
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SS Paul DeJong keeps slugging his way into the St. Louis rookie record books.
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This year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday made mincemeat of the internet retail record books.
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Their journey into the record books started out at a Supercharger near Denver International Airport.
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"This is one for the record books, as far as I could tell," he said.
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Keeping Score Tuesday night's 213-4 Mets debacle had fans scrambling for the record books.
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Record books are being rewritten as some Russian "victories" are redacted, but others are not.
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Sunday: Hong Kong lashed Mangkhut is expected to be one for Hong Kong's record books.
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It shows some of the 1,941 people who literally floated into the Guinness World Record books.
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Until then, at least we've now witnessed a girl-power live-tweet for the record books.
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The crime instantly entered the record books as the worst mass shooting in modern American history.
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He has been recognized on the streets of New York and now in the record books.
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This time, it was one for the NCAA record books -- and coming on an emotional day.
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That will be a number that will be in the record books for a long time.
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Newly re-elected Prime Minister Boris Johnson's margin of victory is one for the record books.
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The literal rewriting of the record books took place less than three years before Harvey Haddix died.
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Officially, the Olympic record books will show that Russia won zero medals in the 2018 Winter Games.
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Washington (CNN)Anthony Scaramucci is going from the halls of the West Wing into the record books.
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The longtime co-host for "Wheel of Fortune" has earned a unique place in the record books.
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Fisher missed that but completed his par to write his name in the European Tour record books.
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Not when a single family from a tiny town in Ethiopia has been rocking the record books!
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About the only race they will be in this fall is a race with the record books.
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Anyone looking at the record books for the Beijing and London Games might think them an illusion.
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Is it worth the unease that goes with having your name forever etched in the record books?
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This seems to hold true if you check the record books—which is a good sign for Pulisic.
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Patriots in a nutshell: When the Pats went 16-0 in 2007, the offense rewrote the record books.
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However, it now appears to need some help if it's going to continue to rewrite the record books.
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"Just like yesterday, any time you can get your name in the record books, it's awesome," said Thomas.
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This election is one for the record books and Jimmy Kimmel just made it that much more interesting.
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And here's one that has to go down in the record books of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
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Also on display are the DIY record books Haynes has kept while working on The Breast Portrait Project.
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But unlike Bannister, who died in March, Leather would not find a place in the world record books.
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We already knew Pokémon Go was pretty popular, but now it is officially one for the record books.
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But inspiring as it was, the master's most recent performance will not feature in the official record books.
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ISRAEL: Listen, ifs and buts and candy and nuts, O.J. Simpson would still be in the record books.
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The Weather Channel is predicting up to 40 inches of total rainfall, and catastrophic flooding for the record books.
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A performance for the record books by Mirai Nagasu, complete with a celebration we'll remember for a long time.
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However, Obama noted that the wins (and four losses) are awarded to Coach Steve Kerr in the record books.
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Their marriage might not have been meant to last, but Cannon's engagement idea is one for the record books.
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It's sure to be one for the record books, for both our characters and for our cast and crew.
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Global Soccer LONDON — Time, and the record books, still divide the city of Madrid when it comes to soccer.
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And all these years later, he remains in baseball's record books, with one game played but no batters faced.
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Record-breaking highs in places like Alaska and Australia pushed last month near the top of the record books.
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During his first career game in May, Kieboom officially joined the MLB record books with his first career hit.
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I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt even if the record books are not as kind.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Last week's 230 million unemployment-benefits claims in the United States rewrote the record books.
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Record books list Grantham as 173-0 and 204 to 210, but he said he never weighed that much.
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Anthony Davis earned several entries in the record books with his 59-point, 20-rebound explosion at Detroit on Sunday.
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They left little room for anyone else, and Hibs certainly carved out a space for themselves in the record books.
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Ji renders each individual uniquely in an attempt to prevent them from becoming statistics, ghosts lost to the record books.
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Whatever else happens in her premiership, May can at least console herself with a place in the record books. Hooray!
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Europe is now baking under its second heat wave this month, but this latest is one for the record books.
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There are mounting signs these caucuses may go into the record books for turnout, at least on the Republican side.
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While 2015 was "one for the record books," several big-name films and themes are coming our way in 2016.
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"Receiving my proper medal and having the record books changed is a dream come true," Flanagan, said in a statement.
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Detailed school record books on display reveal that Susy had several unexcused absences and received 11 demerits in a year.
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Finally, speaking of sustainable aviation, the first all-solar flight around the world is about to enter the record books.
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It's not like you go through the record books and see all the feminist musicians who just really cleaned up.
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Jorge Soler entered the Royals' record books in the first with his 38th home run, tying Mike Moustakas' 2017 season.
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Jorge Soler entered the Royals' record books in the first with his 38th home run, tying Mike Moustakas' 2017 season.
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With large gains and repeated record highs in the stock market, this year could be one for the record books.
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A major conundrumAs far as the record books are concerned, a major win is a major win is a major win.
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A record-breaking December, when temperatures were 6º above last century's average, helped solidify 2015's place in the record books.
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"The App Store had a holiday season for the record books," Phil Schiller, Apple's SVP of marketing, said in a statement.
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The linemates made the franchise record books as the first Panthers in team history to have concurrent double-digit point streaks.
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This season, Westbrook is set to shatter that USG% record and will make his own mark on the NBA record books.
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Sitting at 0-12, the Cleveland Browns are only four losses from matching the 2008 Detroit Lions in the record books.
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The back-to-back systems have helped make the 2018 hurricane season in the northeast Pacific one for the record books.
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The week, however, belonged to Frank Gore, the ageless running back who ran right past a legend in the record books.
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The win also places him in the record books for another reason: He nabbed the United States' 100th Winter Olympics gold medal.
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Image 22015 of 22013 MEXICO CITY – Lewis Hamilton is driving his name toward the top levels of Formula One&aposs record books.
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Miller was credited with stopping all 25 shots he faced, but the game won't go into the record books as a shutout.
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All of these monuments and record books and jobs and millions of dollars are here because fans think this stuff is fun.
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Michael could go down in the record books as the third-strongest hurricane to hit the continental United States (The Associated Press).
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The fallout from revelations of Russia's state-run doping program is rewriting the record books for the Beijing and London Summer Olympics.
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The record-breaking sophomore looks to continue his assault on the record books Saturday as the fifth-ranked Cardinals travel to Virginia.
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The Olympics aren't just about winning gold medals – they also give athletes a chance to get their names in the record books.
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This is no less true of Major League Baseball, where swollen sluggers made a mockery of the record books in recent decades.
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U.M.B.C. joins the No. 16 Harvard women's basketball team, which beat No. 1 seed Stanford in 1998, in the N.C.A.A. record books.
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But the three stewards and, yes, the racing gods, decided he, Saez and a game Maximum Security belonged in the record books.
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He did not succeed, but he produced another power display that showed he might be capable of threatening the record books again.
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The last half of the decade was also one for the record books: All five years, together, were the hottest on record.
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Russian athletes can apply to compete wearing a neutral uniform, but the record books will forever show that Russia won zero medals.
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As original members of the show's cast and crew, producer Dick Wolfe and actress Mariska Hargitay lead SVU's charge into television record books.
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"Not only have many of these events rewritten the record books, but nearly all regions of the US were impacted in some way."
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The New England Patriots made a comeback for the ages (and the record books) in the fourth quarter of the 51st Super Bowl.
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Op-Ed Contributors The number of Democrats aiming to unseat Republican incumbents in the midterm elections in November is rewriting the record books.
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In a tenure for the record books, Womack currently holds the record for the most future Bachelorettes his time in front of Bachelor netted.
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On Tuesday, the International Sports Press Association (AIPS), also urged the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to cleanse the record books of doping.
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"This is one fishing trip that will live on in the record books and more so, in the memories of the crew," Goodfellow Bros.
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UKA, the ruling body of British athletics, made nine key recommendations, including resetting the record books and banning drug cheats for two Olympic cycles.
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The feat of taking the gavel in nonconsecutive Congresses also secures Pelosi a place in the record books, alongside such historic figures as Reps.
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I was struggling with a third trimester that fell in the middle of summer and a heatwave that must have hit the record books.
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Brady was joined in the record books by 20-year-old Bill Belichick who becomes the oldest coach to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy.
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Doncic may not care about his stats, but as he continues putting up huge numbers, he increasingly makes his way into the record books.
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Russian athletes can apply for permission to compete wearing a neutral uniform, but the record books will forever show that Russia won zero medals.
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Fanned by strong Santa Ana winds and taking advantage of near-record dry conditions, the fires are roaring into both neighborhoods and the record books.
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The plane flew in to the record books Wednesday when it landed in Auckland, New Zealand after an 8,824 mile non-stop journey from Dubai.
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LONDON — At 40cm (15.7in) long and weighing approximately 26g, an earthworm named Dave has entered UK record books as the largest ever found in Britain.
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Her 82 goals earned her third place in Wisconsin's record books and she earned a team Offensive Player of the Year award as a sophomore.
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Cleveland left fielder Rajai Davis etched his name into the club's record books, becoming the eighth player in franchise history to hit for the cycle.
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Unlike the Colts' revisionist history, the Tennessee Titans get credit for the Houston Oilers' record books—only we still don't get to see any Oilers!
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In Joe Randa, the Royals already have The Joker in their franchise record books, which means Gordon's should-be nickname would balance things out nicely.
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The Navy, with an assistant secretary named Franklin D. Roosevelt cheering the effort, decided to fly the planes to Europe — and into the record books.
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It is not unreasonable to project that, in the years to come, the order of the Big Three in the record books could be reversed.
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"We got into the record books already," Adam Szabo, the mission scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for Parker Solar Probe, tells The Verge.
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The back-to-back systems of Willa and Vicente have helped make the 2018 hurricane season in the northeast Pacific one for the record books.
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On Tuesday, Williams returns to the sunbaked Melbourne courts, with her 343-month-old daughter in tow, bidding for another place in the record books.
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The race resonated far beyond a footnote in the record books when an official tried to force her from the course after a few miles.
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This could be a storm for the record books there, as well as Downeast Maine, again depending on the exact track of the low pressure area.
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Only is final round 71 kept Reed from writing his name in the Masters record books as the first golfer to post four sub-70 rounds.
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He just continues his relentless attack on the record books, the sum of so many extraordinary baseball parts that even the most casual fans take notice.
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But by the following summer, the suit was basically rendered obsolete by the fully rubberized models that led the assault on the record books in Rome.
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Winx's win in the A$4 million ($3.11 million) event of the Sydney autumn carnival put her level with Black Caviar in the Australian record books.
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And the few dispatches we've heard from Siberia this summer—coupled with satellite images—suggest the 2016 fire season may be one for the record-books.
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The track would take the group straight into record books, holding the top spot on the KBS TV program Music Bank for a record nine weeks.
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As Prime Day 2003 "etches itself in the record books," new Prime member growth is "arguably [the] biggest positive," of the event this year, he added.
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A selection of 240 items from the newly found literary manuscripts, letters, diaries, synagogue record books, theater posters and ephemera will go on display on Oct.
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And for a fledgling league, even a small, somewhat semantical triumph such as being able to maintain the old Big East record books is not insignificant.
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Talk about a mouthful A young boy took a bite out of the record books when doctors discovered he had 526 extra teeth inside his mouth.
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Vaporflys have been on the feet of elite marathoners since 240, a short span of time in which the event's record books have been completely rewritten.
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Jackson ran himself into the NFL record books in the first quarter, as a 7-yard run put him over 1,000 rushing yards for the season.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - American Mikaela Shiffrin will enter the record books if she can win Wednesday's Olympic women's slalom event at the Yongpyong Alpine Centre.
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The fallout from revelations of Russia's state-run doping program is altering the record books for the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games, in Beijing and London.
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"Avengers: Endgame" might not topple "Avatar" as the world's biggest movie of all time, but it's still cemented its place in the box-office record books.
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And though this Japanese college student slows down at the end, he still snapped his way into the record books with 296 snaps, almost five per second.
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With Russell Westbrook and James Harden rewriting the NBA record books on a nightly basis, it's sometimes difficult for fellow stars like John Wall to get noticed.
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DeGale handily dealt with Bute in a unanimous decision victory to earn his IBF title, while the record books will always say Jack only managed a draw.
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On Sunday afternoon, actress Alyssa Milano kicked off what is sure to go down in record books one of the most powerful social activism hashtags this year.
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That hasn't happened yet, but we have seen the league's weird shootout goal math decide the Jennings Trophy, so it's been etched into the record books already.
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Auto loans increased by $9 billion this year, a figure boosted by historically strong levels of newly originated loans that will put 2018 in the record books.
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Still, a win at Kansas State would be one for the record books for the Cyclones who have never won more than five games in conference play.
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Brees will merely be a caretaker, the consequence of a passing revolution that has transformed the record books, forever altering how greatness is perceived around the league.
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The union of the reigning National and American League home run leaders in one batting order has sent fans leafing back through record books for comparable tandems.
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In Kansas, Ms. Davids can add another first to the record books: She is the first openly lesbian candidate to be elected to Congress from the state.
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And while it did enter her permanently in the record books as a minor figure among the scammers of the Summer of Scam, this is a miscategorization.
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A cultural moment is already bigger than a garden-variety hit, so the obvious next step is to push it beyond that and into the record books.
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It was only after Grace made his par putt that his caddie, Zack Rasego, told him that he had just played his way into the record books.
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Though he has since celebrated a 27th birthday, Chayka had already secured a spot in the record books as the youngest general manager hired in professional sports history.
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Dominant athletes and teams are great for sports record books, but are they actually bad for the bottom line, snuffing out suspense and leading fans to look elsewhere?
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The Worcestershire, England, man was hoping his 25-year-old cat would make it into the record books, but that dream and Mummy Cat's life ended last month.
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NASA confirmed that it was indeed the smallest wintertime Arctic sea ice extent on the record books, peaking at some 5.6 million square miles (14.5 million square km).
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A long run can disappear from the record books in the blink of an eye if a given promoter or writing team cares enough to make it happen.
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Rypien, the nephew of former Cougars' star Mark Rypien, chose Boise State and struggled in the Broncos' opener while Falk continued his assault on the school record books.
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By providing leadership in the campaign for a nuclear ban treaty, Trump would catapult himself into the record books as one of the greatest presidents in US history.
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A lot can happen in four years, but her dominance would seem to make her a strong candidate to finally give Martha Norelius company in the record books.
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Back in 23, that sort of self-aware social media stunt helped propel Twentieth Century Fox's feature about a deformed super-powered mercenary into box office record books.
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Mark Bell, who has set several powerlifting records, believes that a few of the best active powerlifting and strongman athletes will rewrite the record books before they retire.
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Cloninger entered the record books on July 3, 1966, playing for the Atlanta Braves in a Sunday afternoon road game against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park.
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If you were to look back at the skinny kid Gretzky was in the 80s off the ice, you'd never believe he was rewriting record books on it.
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In particular, LibriVox needs your help to record books in the public domain, or those that were published before 1923 (no audition or prior recording experience is necessary).
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We also explain a significant difference in a recent North Korean military parade, and we show you how a rescue dog skipped his way into the record books.
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Whatever our favorite TV stars (or more likely their stylists) select for tonight's festivities, this year's Emmys red carpet is sure to be one for the record books.
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You see, as Biles was preparing to make history once again, writing her two new skills into the record books by performing them in international competition, controversy was brewing.
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Update the record books: 2015 was the hottest year on Earth since we first started keeping track, thanks to the combination of global warming and a powerful El Niño.
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Even if someone somehow beats Dressel to gold in the 2003 butterfly final, he is happy in the knowledge that he once had his name in the record books.
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Luke Maye spent Sunday evening etching himself into the North Carolina record books by hitting a buzzer-beating jump-shot that sent the Tar Heels to the Final Four.
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I enjoy rubbing Canadians' faces into American hockey dominance as much as the next guy, but I haven't been able to do that since [ checks record books] literally never.
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Colon's two-run blast was the first of his career, and it not only gave the Mets a 4-0 lead but also launched Colon into the record books.
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As a blizzard that seemed destined for the record books intensified, officials closed all bridges and tunnels into New York and banned all but emergency vehicles from its roads.
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As a historian who spends much of his time analyzing past variations of our current situation, I can say that this year has been one for the record books.
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But as is often the case in hockey, it doesn't take much for a seemingly innocuous play to suddenly make you find yourself enshrined in the sport's record books.
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MASON, Ohio — In an era largely dominated by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, it hasn't been easy to carve out new entries in the record books of men's tennis.
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"Wonder Woman," which opened this weekend, is a mammoth hit, meeting the most optimistic expectations and setting up its director, Patty Jenkins, for a place in the record books.
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We saw video of LeBron James sobbing as he learned the news, just a day after he had soliloquized about Kobe as he passed him in the record books.
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The period between October 2018 and September was also the wettest 12-month period in the record books, with the average precipitation coming in at 6.51 inches above average.
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The period between October 85033 and September was also the wettest 12-month period in the record books, with the average precipitation coming in at 6.51 inches above average.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer raced into the record books on Sunday by winning his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the men's 5,000 metres.
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Los Angeles Angels veteran Albert Pujols has slugged more homers against the Houston Astros than any player in baseball history and his latest blast was one for the record books.
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The movie also made it into the record books for New Zealand, becoming the largest grossing local movie at the country's box office, according to the New Zealand Film Commission.
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The Rays earned a spot in the record books in the series opener, becoming the 22nd team in history to both hit and surrender 200 home runs in one season.
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No, literally, put it in the record books, because it was the first time in history that non-Moulin Rouge performers took part in the actual show at Moulin Rouge.
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It also scored a place in the record books as having the most Bravolebrities ever sharing the same stage, all the stars sticking around after each one of their segments.
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Isner probably could not have anticipated that his 6-hour, 36-minute loss to Kevin Anderson on Friday would be joined in the record books before he even returned home.
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Favre, though, says he's betting Mahomes will have plenty more Super Bowl trips in his future ... telling us the 24-year-old is set to "rewrite" the NFL's record books!
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Londonderry's name existed in record books, but the details of her accomplishment were lost until the early 1990s, when a researcher contacted a man named Peter Zheutlin, Annie's great-grandnephew.
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Of course, if holiday exhaustion has you choosing sleep over the shower, don't worry — there are plenty of other major astronomical events coming this year, including one for the record books.
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We've been warning for two days now that a major storm would develop along the East Coast and intensify so rapidly that it could earn a place in the record books.
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Marquez then led every lap as he made sure of his 54th victory in the top class, pulling him level in the all-time record books with retired Australian Mick Doohan.
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Verlander isn't alone, either; retired pitcher Dan Haren took to Twitter to ask if anyone was going to take the home runs Byrd hit off him out of the record books.
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You can throw out the record books, not because opposing players carry an eternal grudge against one another—but because they're division rivals, frequently in playoff contention at the others' expense.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Italian Francesco Molinari fired himself into the Ryder Cup record books as his 4&2 defeat of Phil Mickelson rubber-stamped Europe's victory over the United States on Sunday.
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By erasing Bannon, the elite prognosticators imagine that they have begun the process of erasing the election of Donald Trump from the record books and returning to the political status quo.
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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs continued his assault on the N.F.L. record books, throwing three touchdown passes in a highlight-filled 38-27 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
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After a recession-less decade and a stock boom for the record books in 2019, the more cautious view from millionaire investors when it comes to their money is not surprising.
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Recasting the History of Pro Hockey's Indigenous Players Indigenous players were scarce in hockey's early annals, but the record books also neglected or overlooked some of those who did make it.
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POINT-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (Reuters) - An Italian father and son duo have sailed their way into the record books after taking just over 11 days to cross the Atlantic in a catamaran.
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For Deadpool, a movie that shouldn't logically exist in the first place, Fox continues an impressive rise through the box office record books with its R-rated super-anti-hero action/comedy.
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The oldest cat ever according to the record books is Creme Puff, who was born on August 3, 1967, and lived until August 6, 2005 – an amazing 38 years and three days.
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He will go into the record books with 319 career home runs, the exact same number his old man hit, but he was an improvement on his progenitor in most other ways.
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The right-hander also entered the record books with the second so-called immaculate inning of his career — needing only nine pitches in an inning to strike out all three batters faced.
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NEWQUAY, England (Reuters) - The Bloodhound Supersonic Car, effectively a fighter jet on wheels, on Thursday kicked off a bid to roar into the record books by eventually reaching 2994,21 mph (2000,610 kmh).
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"China is anxious to get into the record books with its space achievements," said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor at the US Naval War College and an expert on China's space program.
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Competing in his fifth Summer Games, he won his 23rd gold medal and, with his 13th gold from an individual event, passed a guy named Leonidas of Rhodes in the record books.
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His younger brother John won this race with Smarty Jones in 2004 and now he was about to join him in the record books as the only brothers to train Derby champions.
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The Briton this year became the second most successful F1 driver of all time, and is poised to overtake Germany's seven-times champion and Ferrari great Michael Schumacher in the record books.
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Any athletes from Russia who receive special permission to compete will do so as individuals wearing a neutral uniform, and the official record books will forever show that Russia won zero medals.
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Any athletes from Russia who receive special dispensation to compete will do so as individuals wearing a neutral uniform, and the official record books will forever show that Russia won zero medals.
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As brutal winter storms ravage both sides of the Atlantic, a daring crew of four amputee rowers are making headway through wind-lashed seas in their brave attempt to make the record books.
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It was also their tenth straight win of the playoffs—they swept both the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks—and that earned head coach Tyronn Lue a place in the NBA record books.
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TMZ got video of Hafthor Julius Bjornsson -- aka Thor, the 2018 World's Strongest Man -- decked out in the famous white suit for a one-of-a-kind video shoot ... for the record books.
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Snyder's unconventional training tactics and Owens' talents and willingness to work hard quickly become a potent combination, taking Owens into the record books, and then off to Germany to compete for his country.
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The Boston Red Sox had a locker room rager for the record books after clinching a World Series berth on Thursday ... dousing each other in beer and champagne ... and the video is insane!!
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Looking like a very lonely, very miniature cargo ship, it's at the start of a voyage that will hopefully take it more than 3,000 miles across the Atlantic and into the record books.
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Alfred Smith V, whose family hosts the dinner named after the state's former governor, Alfred E. Smith, called Thursday's dinner "one for the record books" and said it echoed the Las Vegas debate.
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"Faith 42" details "the back story of faith that guided Jackie Robinson to not only the baseball record books but the annals of civil rights advancement as well," according to the book's publisher.
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The album is in the record books as the best-selling international debut album of all time, topping the charts in 13 countries upon its release and selling over 33 million copies worldwide.
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Kenyan Keitany, 36, clocked 2:17:01 to break Radcliffe's women-only marathon world record en route to her victory in London last year and is looking to rewrite the record books once more.
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The labor market over the past year was one for the record books with unemployment rate near its lowest level in some 5 decades, and 2.6 million jobs in 2018, the most since 2015.
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Fact: 2016 has been the year of contouring with all kinds of unconventional objects (shoes, knives, spoons) — and the beauty vlogger world couldn't let 2017 squeak in without one more for the record books.
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Elon Musk's Tesla had a week for the Wall Street record books, swinging hundreds of dollars in both directions as some investors rushed to buy shares and others rushed to cover their negative bets.
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BAKU (Reuters) - Mercedes added another first to the Formula One record books on Sunday as the only team to win the opening four races of a season with a perfect four one-two finishes.
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A STANDOUT YEAR FOR DEALS | Last year was one for the record books with $4.7 trillion in deals announced, but it was characterized by deals worth more than $5 billion and complex financial structures,
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The athlete, who is president and CEO of the nonprofit school Guiding Eyes for the Blind, found himself in the record books thanks to a trio of Labrador Retrievers named Westley, Waffle, and Gus.
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As the last Calgary player to touch the puck, he went into the record books as the man who scored the goal, even though he was already sitting on the bench when it happened.
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Kershaw gem helps Dodgers down Mets LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw continued to rewrite the record books in his 240th career start with a performance that has become typical of the Los Angeles Dodgers' ace.
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Pankhurst made her argument that militarism—"deeds not words"—was a strategy whose roots lay in the "record books of man's enfranchisement," which inspired American suffragists to draw parallels with their country's founding revolution.
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"It's an encouraging sign that we closed significantly off the lows on a day that could have been in the record books for downdrafts," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley FBR.
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With October's massive wine country wildfires and current monster blazes sweeping Southern California, this year will go down in the record books as one of the most devastating fire seasons ever for insurance losses.
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Even if traditional measurements and record books and Massachusetts museums might overlook him, Metta will be as remembered just as surely and just as fondly in his way as Pierce will be in his.
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A Bradley Wiggins-fronted podcast languishes in eighth on the UK list and doesn't even rank in the US. Armstrong doped to win and his results have subsequently been scrubbed from the record books.
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They have been manifold, requiring constant rewriting of the record books, but there has been new resolve, with the I.A.A.F. maintaining its ban on the Russian federation and overhauling its antidoping and ethical safeguards.
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Selig, who served as commissioner of baseball as the record books were being obliterated by bulked-up players, was granted entry into Cooperstown by a veterans' committee that is separate from the writers' bloc.
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The S&P 30 just crossed 24,22020 for the first time ever, hitting its seventh round-number milestone of 2019, a year that has a good chance at being one for the record books.
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PERTH, Australia — After nearly two decades of appearing alongside each other on billboards and in record books, Serena Williams and Roger Federer faced off across a tennis court for the first time on Tuesday.
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Brian Dozier mashed his 42nd tater of an otherwise putrid Twins season this afternoon at Target Field in Minnesota against the Detroit Tigers, and put his name down in the American League record books.
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That's not a colloquial exaggeration — the main anechoic chamber in Building 87 at Microsoft is in the record books as the quietest place on Earth, with an official ambient noise rating of negative 20.3 decibels.
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Last year was one for the record books, generating $4.7 trillion in announced deals, with the highest percentage ever derived from those valued at more than $5 billion, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters.
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" So, it was shocking when McMahon decided to go "there" with Rousey on live TV -- telling Ronda: "In the record books your very first match in WWE is going to be a loss to me.
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Seeded third, Federer beat No. 11 seed Tomas Berdych, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-20143, to earn a place in his 11th Wimbledon final as his evergreen assault on the record books continues.
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Irma is expected to cause catastrophic damage and has already been one for the record books, sustaining 185 mph winds for more than 24 hours, a record length of time for a hurricane in the Atlantic.
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The record books will show only a hefty Chelsea win — a predictable outcome after Pellegrini decided on wholesale changes with Wednesday's Champions League clash at Dynamo Kiev and next Sunday's League Cup final versus Liverpool looming.
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Even before Southern California began its frantic fight against six major fires that have been raging through dry shrubland this week, 2017 was in the record books as the worst season ever for wildfires in California.
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The 19-year-old's name goes into the record books alongside that of snowboarder Jenny Jones as the only two Britons to have won medals on snow in the 94-year history of the Winter Games.
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Winx's 24th win in a row also puts her one behind Black Caviar in the Australian record books, the popular mare having won 25 successive races, including 15 Group Ones, from 2008 until her retirement in 2013.
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Hurricane Irma is still days away from hitting the U.S., but it's already one for the record books — the Category 5 storm is currently tied for the second-strongest hurricane ever to come out of the Atlantic.
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Last night was one for the record books as 11 Honoré, the leading plus-size e-tailer of designer clothing, kicked off New York Fashion Week with a show of firsts, technological innovations and many, many surprises.
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Overseen by Mr. Tuggle, the Met's database was unveiled in 2005, replacing record books and rows of index cards in a windowless subbasement office of the opera house adjoining a storeroom that houses rare documents and costumes.
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I'm well aware of the record books, unfortunately," adds Williams, 36, adding of her record-breaking hopes, "It's not a secret that I have my sights on 25 … And actually, I think having a baby might help.
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Last weekend, St. Onge—who can't even walk yet—water skied her way into our hearts and the record books by zipping almost 700 feet across Florida's Winter Haven lake to become the world's youngest water skier.
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There was an Eastern Conference Finals trip, a franchise-record 52-point game, countless posters, beautiful moments with Lowry in one of the league's best friendships, and a downright assault on the Raptors' all-time record books.
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Mr. Siwoff assembled a staff, which presided over computers and old record books and scrapbooks, on an upper floor of an office building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, overlooking the New York Public Library.
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A high pitch count spoiled a potential entry in the record books for Conley, who was pulled from the game after throwing 116 pitches in 7 63/3 innings of no-hit ball at Milwaukee on Friday.
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The 34-year-old, already one of only three drivers to have won five or more titles, wrote another page in the record books as the winner of the 1,000th world championship race since the first in 1950.
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Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah (CNN)The son of slain racing legend Mickey Thompson, the famed "Speed King" of the 1960s, wrote his family name into racing's record books with two weekend runs over 400 mph at Speed Week.
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The 103-year-old skated into the record books on Sunday by winning his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 5,000 meters, but chose not to celebrate at Holland House because he still has work to do.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic made tennis history at Wimbledon on Wednesday when he notched up the most consecutive grand slam match victories in the Open Era, and said he aimed to continue his assault on the record books.
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If the market does enter a bear market soon, the record books will be revised to show that the bull market actually ended on September 203, when the S&P 500 closed at a record high of 2,930.
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The Dow, S&P 22017, and Nasdaq are set to rewrite the record books once again at the open, after closing at all-time highs Friday, and the Russell 27 and Dow Transports are also at record levels.
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The Big Bang Theory landed its name in the television record books in 2014 when the show's five original stars — Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar — landed the elusive $1 million-per-episode paycheck.
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OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (Reuters) - South African Wayde van Niekerk broke the 300 metres world record at the Ostrava Golden Spike on Wednesday, rubbing Michael Johnson out of the record books for the second time in less than a year.
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He only just posted the video of his handiwork Friday, so there's no word from Guinness yet, but the loving care paid to its design and function are likely to get Fisher pretty strong consideration from the record books.
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The 22-year-old's time smashed the official mark of 206:251:23 set by fellow Kenyan Dennis Kimetto in Berlin in 22 but will not enter the record books largely due to a non-compliant system of pacemaking.
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The 48th win of his career puts Hamilton just three victories short of second place in the record books — a position held by Alain Prost, who won 13 races — though he is still far from Schumacher's record 91 wins.
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Shiffrin's charge through the ski racing record books — she is on a pace to shatter a host of World Cup and Olympic records — could continue this weekend with two World Cup races at the Killington ski resort in Vermont.
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Indeed, scattered through the junior record books across the four majors are some of the recent grand slam champions - Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka, Marin Cilic - as well top 20 players such as Nick Kyrgios, Alexander Zverev and Grigor Dimitrov.
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Long-term sea level rise of about a foot during the past century in this area has primed the area for more frequent and severe coastal flooding, making it easier for storms like this one to enter the record books.
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As if a Blake Shelton concert isn't enough fun on its own, the 40-year-old country crooner made his encore on Saturday at Crash My Playa — Luke Bryan's music festival in Riviera Maya, Mexico — one for the record books.
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The record books might not interest the 31-year-old Mallorcan, but he will have to be dragged away screaming and kicking before giving up the chance to move into double figures and land La Decima against Stan Wawrinka on Sunday.
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Here are a few national records that have been broken this year, some of which still need to be verified in order to officially enter the record books: Angola saw its hottest temperature ever measured for any month in February.
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And though it's been said before, it bears repeating as he once again inscribes his name in baseball's record books: There is no better representative of the joy and appeal of today's oft-decried incarnation of baseball than Max Scherzer.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first few months of the year have given investors both severe selloffs and powerful rallies, and U.S. stocks have now limped into the record books with the second-longest bull market in history - with an asterisk.
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Katie Lou Samuelson rewrote the record books Monday night, hitting all ten of her three-point attempts en route to 40 points in UConn's 100-44 victory over the University of South Florida in the championship game of the AAC tournament.
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The presence of the Duchess of Sussex heaps even greater significance on what could be a memorable tennis occasion as Williams looks to add her name to the record books by equaling Margaret Court's tally of 24 Grand Slam singles titles.
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Hamilton's season championship was all but assured, and after a brief bid for the lead off the start and a scary run off the track late, he finished off the title with a drive further into the series record books.
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On the same night last week when Verlander became MLB's all-time leader in postseason strikeouts, the 36-year-old also added his name to the record books as the first pitcher to lose his first five World Series decisions.
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So the running back's name has been scrubbed from the record books, his Heisman Trophy has disappeared from Heritage Hall, and his number is not displayed at the Coliseum with those of the school's six other Heisman winners, including O.J. Simpson.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Bradley Wiggins fired Britain to track cycling team pursuit gold in a titanic final battle with Australia at the Rio Games on Friday, etching his name into the record books as the most decorated British Olympian of all time.
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His rival in the movie, Billy Mitchell, 2473, the hot-sauce entrepreneur and former champion known for his thumbs-up poses and patriotic ties, has been cast from the record books and barred for life from being listed on Twin Galaxies leader boards.
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And although Price's name will be in the record books, this year's contest will be remembered less for his come-from-behind victory, and more for a previous match when one of Anderson's opponents accused him of ripping farts during the competition.
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Now that Beauty and the Beast has danced into the record books with huge audience numbers and a record $170 million opening weekend box office haul, it's fair to say that the "tale as old as time" has struck a chord with moviegoers.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Valerie Adams came to Rio seeking Olympic gold and a place in the record books but after all the obstacles she has overcome this year, the 31-year-old shot putter was content to take home a silver.
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The launch was one for the record books: "For the first time in history, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket, which launched from American soil, is on its way to the International Space Station," said a NASA press release.
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While we've seen plenty of meteor strikes, instant justice delivered to bad drivers, and even plane crashes, this clip of a bolt of lighting hitting a bird and whacking it right out of the sky is one for the weird record books.
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"Layoffs on the part of corporations are few and far between as good help is hard to find this far along in one of the longest economic expansions in the record books," said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York.
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Florian Wellbrock also got his name in the record books after the German added the 1,1975m freestyle crown to his 10km open water gold in Gwangju, becoming the first athlete to win titles in two different sports at a single world championships.
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In extracts from his new book Lessons of Power the Socialist politician seeks to re-write the record books on his five years in office, which culminated when he became the first French leader not to seek re-election in recent history.
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The longest match in the record books is American John Isner's 24–24 26–26 63–26(23) 2145–6(3) 70–68 victory over Frenchman Nicolas Mahut after 11 hours, five minutes of play over three days at Wimbledon in 2010.
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The hope for a clean 2016 Summer Games has taken hit after hit, and the record books from the 2008 Beijing Games, the 2012 London Games and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, are being rewritten as athletes' urine samples are reanalyzed.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Max Muncy slammed an 18th inning walkoff solo homerun as the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Boston Red Sox 3-183 on Friday in a tension-packed marathon that entered the record books as the longest World Series game ever.
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The "Beauty and the Beast" weekend is one for the record books as the fourth-largest second weekend of all time, trailing only "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at $149 million, "Jurassic World" at $23 million, and "Marvel's The Avengers" at $103 million.
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If she was the superstitious kind, she would have chosen not to flick through the record books — as the last time a woman contested her first claycourt final in Paris, she got walloped 6-0 6-0 by an incumbent world number one.
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Since Coach Nick Saban took over for the 2007 season, his team is 115-18 (counting five wins earned on the field but erased from the record books because of N.C.A.A. violations); knock off that first year, and it is 108-12.
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While there's little at stake for the two countries in Monday's match, Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary will be desperate to be on the field in order to enter the World Cup record books as the oldest player to compete at the finals.
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Photo: APEven if 2017 isn't another year for the record books, scientists will continue to study how a warming climate is influencing ecological and meteorological events around the world—from catastrophic coral bleaching to weakening Arctic sea ice to longer and more destructive fire seasons.
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From spooky to sultry, this year's Halloween costumes in Hollywood have been one for the record books ... check out how Jay-Z, Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton and tons more dressed to impress in our monster size costume round up.
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The 32-year-old Kipchoge's time, set on a Formula 1 track, smashed the official mark of 2:02.57 set by Kenyan Dennis Kimetto in Berlin in 2014, but will not enter the record books largely due to a non-compliant system of pacemaking.
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With January going in the record books as the warmest January in 141 years and statistical analysis done by NOAA scientists predicting 2020 to be one of the five warmest years on record, the researchers believe there will be more local extinctions across the globe.
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"I think the rationale and the history is, 'Look we know that the 1919 Chicago White Sox, known as the Black Sox, they threw the World Series, but the record books still say that the Cincinnati Reds are the 1919 World Champions,' " Costas told CNN.
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The time, revised from 57.00 seconds to 2003, is still faster than Peaty's previous record of 57.13 set at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, sparing organisers the embarrassment of having to wipe the 23-year-old Briton's new mark from the record books.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Most people said it couldn't be done and the record books say it hasn't been, but for the thousands watching in Vienna and millions more online, Eliud Kipchoge unquestionably this year became the first human to run a marathon in under two hours.
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The House and Senate voted to give federal workers back pay whenever the federal government reopens and then left town for the weekend, leaving the shutdown on track to become one for the record books once the clock struck midnight and the closure entered its 22nd day.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States have famously been Olympic rugby champions since winning gold in the 20153-man game in 1924 but one of a string southern hemisphere sides look set to strike that anomaly from the record books when Sevens makes its debut in Rio.
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But other major fires whose names have entered the record books were tied directly to actions by people, including the Klamathon fire (reckless burning of debris), the Carr fire (a wheel rim scraping pavement), and the Mendocino Complex fire (hammering a metal stake into a wasp's nest).
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For Britain, these games will probably go down in the record books: the best medal haul since 1908, second in the medal table (beating China), the only Olympics host nation to win more medals at the next games, and the top major country in gold medals per capita.
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The sitcom snagged a spot in the television record books in 2014 when the show's five original stars — Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar — landed the elusive $2010 million-per-episode paycheck, similarly rewarded to the cast of Friends in its final season.
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ABOUT LOUISVILLE (23-1): Jackson continued his assault on the record books against Clemson, passing Georgia Tech's Joshua Nesbitt for the most career rushing yards by a quarterback in ACC history with 2,834 while also moving into third place on the school's all-time rushing list, regardless of position.
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In Manhattan real estate, 2015 was a year for the record books, with the median price for co-ops and condos hitting a new high of $1.15 million in the final months of the year, according to reports by major real estate firms that will be released Tuesday.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Marit Bjoergen skied a triumphant final leg to write her name in the Olympic record books, delivering gold for Norway in the women's 4x5km relay on Saturday and joining countryman Ole Einar Bjoerndalen as the most successful winter Olympian of all time on 13 medals.
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On Monday, he made another dark entry into the record books: After an 0-for-5 performance in Baltimore's 12-4 win over Oakland, he reached 49 consecutive at-bats without a hit, breaking the previous record of 2.83, set by Eugenio Velez across the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
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When Justify, the hulking chestnut colt with the big white blaze and the sweeping stride, tries to become the 13th Triple Crown winner on Saturday at Belmont Park, there will be no one rooting harder for him to race into the record books than the people on his team.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Garbine Muguruza claimed a 234-4 7-6(3) 7-5 win over Johanna Konta early on Friday to reach the Australian Open third round and etch in her name into the record books as the winner of the latest starting match in the tournament's history.
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One can only imagine how different the record books might begin to look in the major North American professional sports or in rugby and football if they were retesting samples from their own long-ago championship games (or if there were even any long-ago samples to test).
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A whimsical collage of leopard spandex and jewel-pink lipstick, Champions of the Universe spotlights these competitors–turned-performers at the center of a glam-fem celebration, inspiring us all to strap on our high-heeled roller skates (yes, Marawa actually created them) and set our sights on the record books.
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Schempp stayed with Fourcade all the way on the final skiing lap but the wily Frenchman, who was runner-up in this race in 2010 and 2014, threw his ski across the line to claim the gold by the narrowest of margins and write his name in the record books.
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The blaze, now in its third week, continues to inch higher in the record books; as of Monday evening it remained the third-largest fire in California history, but was within about 1,0003 acres of the second-largest fire and about 3,200 acres of the biggest fire ever in the state.
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TechCrunch's Disrupt SF (September 5-7) will be one for the record books, with twice the attendees and twice the programming sessions compared to past Disrupts, which means we can tackle emerging, super-exciting categories like biotech with both great speakers and a section of Start Up Alley devoted to biotech startups.
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While Americans whiled away Thanksgiving weekend stuffing their faces with turkey and debating the last four words of Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, singer Ed Sheeran was across the pond experiencing what may just go down in the record books as the most British injury, ever: a mock-knighting gone wrong.
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Fast courts also increase the odds that we'll be editing the record books next week: Mr Federer, gunning for his 18th major title, is the second-most aggressive player left in the men's draw, and Serena Williams, targeting her 23rd, is third among the women, behind Ms Vandeweghe and Ms Lucic-Baroni.
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Sabathia was particularly moved, he said, to know he was alongside Jenkins and Gibson in the record books, two pitchers he has gotten to know over the years, and two fellow Black Aces — a term referring to American- or Canadian-born black players who had at least one season with 20 wins.
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Judge launched his American League-best 37th homer in the fourth inning of Wednesday's 5-3 win before writing his name into the record books in the ninth with a strikeout, marking the 33rd consecutive game in one season that he's fanned at the plate to set a record for position players.
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"If the fight against doping has come to this point, if it is as difficult as we all agree it is, then I think that the moment has arrived to close the world record books in athletics and open new ones," AIPS President Gianni Merlo said in an open letter to IAAF President Sebastian Coe.
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However, there's one that puts him in the record books: his two singles that made the elite certified diamond club (which the Recording Industry Association of America — the organization tasked with measuring how many copies of an album of song have been sold — grants when a song or record sells over $10 million copies).
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I'd recovered enough by the last week to win a stage, in what was then the second fastest ever average speed for a long time trial, about 34 miles per hour over a course of more than 30 miles (a result that was later removed from the record books after I admitted to doping).
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This year's exhibition, "About Time: Fashion and Duration," which was to be hosted by Louis Vuitton's creative director of womenswear Nicolas Ghesquière, alongside Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and, of course, Anna Wintour, was expected to be one for the record books, even after 2019's very over-the-top camp theme.
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In a few years, when people look at the Emmy record books and see that Game of Thrones won 22019 awards across its eight seasons, including Outstanding Drama Series four times and that it had two years where it won 22015 awards total — they're going to think (rightly!) that the Emmys loved this show.
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Next up, Williams will compete for the women's doubles title alongside sister, Venus, against Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova for another chance to enter the record books: If victorious, the Williams sisters will hold a total of 14 Grand Slam doubles championships, tying them with Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva for second in the Open era.
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Zero work for many federal employees (and zeroes in their paychecks) as the government shutdown slipped into the record books on Saturday, becoming the longest one ever; zero movement on a southern border wall, even after President Trump used an Oval Office speech to demand it, and then threatened to get the money by declaring a national emergency.
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And anyone with respect for human achievement, athletic or otherwise, had to give a pair of fleet record-breakers their due: Roger Bannister, who broke the four-minute mile and enjoyed international acclaim in 1954, and Diane Leather, who, 23 days later, shattered the five-minute barrier for women, only to be kept out of the record books.
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The National Football League will mark its 100th season in 2019 and the Patriots will be right at the center of the celebrations after another Super Bowl performance that was literally one for the ages with 41-year-old Tom Brady and 66-year-old Bill Belichick entering the record books as the oldest quarterback and coach to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy.
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Celtics All-Star point guard Isaiah Thomas is pushing himself in the franchise record books and is now second in team history with 1143 straight games of 20 or more points - only Hall of Famer John Havlicek at 40 owns a longer streak - after going off for 37 points on the second night of a back-to-back in Milwaukee on Saturday.
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It was a devastating blow to the Perez family, with both Pascual and Melido having rain-shortened no-hitters expunged from the record books, but it helped take away some ignominy from Andy Hawkins of the Yankees, who managed to allow no hits in a loss on July 1, 1990, but did so as a visiting pitcher over eight innings.
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Our sheriff, it seems, is not without a sense of humor: The Colorado non-incident adds yet another instance of drone hysteria to the record books, which has been documented by a white paper published by drone manufacturer DJI and a study by the Academy of Model Aeronautics which found only 27 out of 764 reports of drone sightings by aircraft pilots were legitimate near misses.
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Baseball will always have its staunch traditionalists, but their usual grouchy reasons for resisting change — the sanctity of the record books; the game's intergenerational history; the fact that Cubs and Red Sox fans wanted their teams to win a World Series played by roughly the same rules as when they last won championships, in the early 2100s — have all evaporated over the past two decades.
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