* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

In 1971, the team's four starting pitchers, McNally, Cuellar, Palmer, and Pat Dobson, all won 20 games, a feat that has not been replicated.

* Lara has scored an 20 % of his team runs, a feat surpassed only by Bradman ( 23 %) and George Headley ( 21 %).

Had the Bears won either championship, the club would have completed a championship three-peat – a feat completed only by the Packers ( twice ), although no team has done it since the AFL-NFL merger.

He was top scorer in the 1986 World Cup and received the Golden Boot, the only time an Englishman has achieved this feat.

Botham scored a century and took 5 wickets in an innings in the same Test match on 5 occasions ; no-one else has managed this feat more than twice.

They continued on to complete the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean – and by its longest axis, Barrow, Alaska to Svalbard – a feat that has never been repeated.

* Sometimes confetti will rain from the ceiling, often to hail the arrival of a wrestler who has recently won a championship or accomplished some other feat.

His feat of holding the world records for the mile, the 5, 000 m and the 10, 000 m at the same time has not been matched by any other athlete before or since.

He is the leading point-scorer in NHL history, with more assists than any other player has points, and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season – a feat he accomplished four times.

He won five Formula One World Drivers ' Championships — a record which stood for 46 years until bested by Michael Schumacher — with four different teams ( Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati ), a feat that has not been repeated.

" BBC News stated, " The 26-year-old magician has outdone his hero, Harry Houdini, who had planned a similar feat but died in 1926 before he could perform it.

Brett's batting average was at or above. 400 as late in the season as September 19, and the country closely followed his quest to bat. 400 for an entire season, a feat which has not been accomplished since Ted Williams in.

A successful AIDS prevention and treatment program was also established, leading the Catholic Institute for International Relations to state, the " incredible feat of slowing the rate of new infections in Haiti has been achieved despite the lack of international aid to the Haitian government, and despite the notable lack of resources faced by those working in the health field.

A slight decrease in the accumulated public debt compared to GDP has been seen, however, thanks to a higher economic growth rate compared to the budget growth rate, which pushed the percentage from 99 % of GDP in 2009 to 95 % of GDP in 2011, a four point decrease in two years, a feat rare enough to mention in the Western World.

It also serves as the opening leg of the Triple Crown, followed by the Derby and the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three has been rarely attempted in recent decades.

For this feat the city has been awarded the gold medal for military valour.

More recently, Blacks A Fake has won four Inter Dominion Championships, making him the only horse to complete this feat in Australasia's premier harness race.

According to some sources, Alvarado used his lance to vault across a gap in the causeway ; this feat has come to be known as the Salto de Alvarado (" Alvarado's Leap ").

He has the unique distinction of scoring a century in each of his first three Tests – a feat unmatched till date.

Fox's heroic status has been attributed to his image as an ordinary person attempting a remarkable and inspirational feat.

Yastrzemski was the first player to ever collect over 3, 000 hits and 400 home runs solely in the American League ; the feat has since been accomplished by Cal Ripken Jr ..

When performing this play during this period, Keel accomplished a feat that has never been duplicated ; he performed the leads in both shows on the same day.

Rowing has also traditionally been a strong sport at the Hall, with the men attaining Headship in the Summer Eights of 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964 and 1965, and the women achieving the same feat in 2006, a title retained through 2007, 2008 and 2009.

He also became the first starting pitcher to win this award since Roger Clemens had accomplished the feat in 1986.

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

He came under heavy fire for these comments from press and politicians alike, especially since he himself lost almost 10 % of the Bavarian vote – a dubious feat in itself as Bavarians tend to consistently vote conservatively.

This was no small feat since Athanasius was regarded as a " man of God " by Constantine.

* 1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson ( twice ), J. T.

* September 6 – Charles Turner becomes the first cricket bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson ( twice ), J. T.

It would be a feat not achieved since Jack Brabham's victories in 1959 and 1960.

Napoleon had succeeded in bringing most of Western Europe under one rule — a feat that had not been accomplished since the days of the Roman Empire ( although Charlemagne had nearly done so around 800 CE ).

Hadlee, and his immediate successor at Nottinghamshire Franklyn Stephenson, are the only two players to achieve this feat in English county cricket since the number of county games per season was reduced in 1969.

As of 2012, he is the last horse to accomplish the feat of sweeping the English Triple Crown: since 1970 only Reference Point ( 1987 ), Nashwan ( 1989 ), Sea The Stars ( 2009 ) and Camelot ( 2012 ) have won two of the three races, but Oh So Sharp won the filly's version of the Triple Crown in 1985.

Thomas Burke won both the 100 metres and 400 metres, a feat not since repeated, while London-based Australian Edwin Flack won the 800 and 1500 metres races.

Included within this period, a 1 – 1 draw with Inter Milan took Rangers into the last 16 of the Champions League, the first Scottish team to achieve the feat since 1993, the club eventually exiting on the away goals rule to Villarreal.

Bradman made it known that he wanted to go through the tour unbeaten, a feat never accomplished, before or since.

In 1999, Chris Antley's horse, Charismatic ( horse ), became a contender to win The Triple Crown ; a feat that has not been accomplished since 1978 by Affirmed.

In terms of China's longest and most impressive fortification, the Great Wall had been built since the Qin Dynasty ( 221-207 BC ), although its present form was mostly an engineering feat and remodeling of the Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644 AD ) during the 15th and 16th centuries.

From a literary point of view, the book is a feat of skill, since it keeps to a tiny vocabulary and tells an entertaining tale.

Petrosian successfully defended his title beating Spassky, a feat that had not been accomplished since Alexander Alekhine defeated Efim Bogoljubov in the 1934 World Chess Championship.

Di Natale, with 28 goals, became the first back-to-back capocannoniere since Lazio's Giuseppe Signori accomplished the feat in 1993 and 1994.

In 1986, Norman was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award, a feat he replicated in 1993 to join Muhammad Ali and Björn Borg as multiple winners ( They have since been joined by Roger Federer ).

Jean Buridan climbed the mountain early in the fourteenth century ; Petrarch ( accompanied by his brother ) repeated the feat on April 26, 1336, and claimed to have been the first to climb the mountain since antiquity.