** At 146 mph ( 235 km / h ) US model top speed, Porsche boldly claims the 928S to be " the fastest street legal production car sold in the US ".

** Top speed ( US model ) is now in excess of 250 km / h ( 155 mph ).

** Virtualized interrupt to speed up virtual 8086 mode.

** Speed breaking – boards are held loosely by one edge, putting special focus on the speed required to perform the break

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

** Two separate register files, which could be quickly switched, to speed up response to interrupts

** Bonnie Blair, American speed skater

** Ye Qiaobo, Chinese speed skater

** Yu Fengtong, Chinese speed skater

** Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK.

** The first speed limit is introduced in Britain: in town and in the country.

** Uwe-Jens Mey, German speed skater

** Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91. 37 mph.

** Akira Kuroiwa, Japanese speed skater

** Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater

** Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater

** Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater

** Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater

** Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622. 287 mph ( 1 001. 452 863 km / h ) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

** Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater

** Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker ( b. 1921 )

** A speed limit is imposed on British roads.

** Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater

** Results of the Michelson-Morley experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.

** Sergey Khlebnikov, Soviet speed skater ( d. 1999 )

** The Artistic License ( the original Artistic License 1. 0, the one which is still used by Perl and CPAN )

** The Dutch still use the word " cijfer " to refer to a numerical digit.

** still more Nast

** Dean Cain in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman showed Clark as a normal and shy everyman demonstrating occasional touches of clumsiness ( e. g., pretending to burn his mouth on coffee ), but still a highly skilled journalist, much like the current post-Crisis portrayal.

** Dardic languages ( sometimes still classified separately as a part of Iranian or Nuristani Group ):

** In modern times, although the Jewish calendar year number changes on Rosh Hashanah, the months are still numbered from Nisan.

** from 1 October 1922 Walvisbaai's administration ( still merely having a Magistrate until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, thence a Mayor ) was also assigned to South West Africa Mandate

** In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes " Demons " and " Terra Prime " ( both 2005 ) it is revealed that Mars is in the process of being terraformed by use of the Verteron array which redirects comets to crashland on the planet's surface ; by 2155 the atmosphere had been sufficiently altered so that, in the lowlands, Humans could breathe the air unassisted, though temperatures were still cold enough to require thermal gear.

** tzu for tsû ( pinyin zi ), but it still remains ts-before other vowels, as in tsung for the Pinyin zong.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart ( which is still the corporate name ), opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

** Toronto Argonauts, the oldest professional sports team still playing in North America

** Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, join hands to demand freedom and independence, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way.

** A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Samuel P. Cowley, who was still able to mortally wound Nelson.

** Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is first published.

** March 26 – By the treaty of Almirra, the king of Aragon and prince of Castile come to an agreement on the attribution of Muslim lands to still to be conquered.

** The straw-filled mattress, also known as palliasse, is still used in many parts of the world.

** Straw envelopes for wine bottles have become rarer, but are still to be found at some wine merchants.

** Minuteman-III still being a missile with three solid-fuel stages, introduced in the post-boost stage (“ bus ”) an additional liquid-fuel propulsion system rocket engine ( PSRE ) that is used to slightly adjust the trajectory.

** Surround sound, more than two channels though still technically stereo

** Secondary axis still dichasial: dichasium ( characteristic of Caryophyllaceae )

** The electricity produced by wind turbines increased from 0. 596 TWh in 2004, to 0. 963 TWh in 2005, and 2. 15 TWh in 2006, but this still accounts only for 0. 4 % of the total production of electricity ( as of 2006 ).

** Final consonants in Wrocław and Bytom used to be soft, which is still reflected in suffixed forms, hence-i -.

** Listed races-have less prestige than the group races but are still more important than handicaps.

** Since 1941 ( decommissioned in 1997, still operational ) Forsby-Köping limestone cableway, Sweden.