Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

Craven Cottage held the team's largest ever crowd at any ground with 15, 013, at a game against Wakefield Trinity on 15 February 1981.

The massive stadium did, however, permit the Indians to set the then record for the largest crowd to see a Major League baseball game.

The game was played before 80, 227 fans, to date the largest crowd to see a single regular-season Major League Baseball game.

* On December 31, 1994, the New Year's Eve celebrations featured a Rod Stewart concert, which featured 3. 5 million, making it the largest concert crowd ever.

This phenomenal turnout of fans who witnessed Damon Bailey's Bedford-North Lawrence Stars win the State Championship stands as the largest crowd ever to witness a high school basketball game.

The 2010 NBA All-Star Game was held at Cowboys Stadium in front of the largest crowd ever, 108, 713.

In 2012, Sydney Swans took the premiership cup defeating Hawthorn by 10 points front of 99, 683 people at the MCG, the largest crowd the Swans had ever played in front of.

The tour included five shows in Argentina, one of which drew the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history with an audience of 300, 000 in Buenos Aires and two concerts at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, where they played to an audience of more than 131, 000 people in the first night ( then the largest paying audience for a single band anywhere in the world ) and more than 120, 000 people the following night.

The Panathinaiko Stadium, the only Olympic stadium used in the 1800s, overflowed with the largest crowd ever to watch a sporting event.

Unfortunately Henin had to pull out and Serena Williams replaced her as the match was played in front of the largest crowd ever for a single match, beating the attendance set at the Battle of the Sexes.

The Spurs set several NBA attendance records while playing at the Alamodome, including the largest crowd ever for a NBA Finals game in 1999, and the Spurs continue to sell out the smaller, more intimate AT & T Center ( formerly SBC Center ) on a regular basis.

The Thunderdome crowd of 28, 183 for the April 23 playoff game against the Flyers was the largest crowd for any NHL game, a record that stood until the 2003 Heritage Classic in Edmonton.

The attendance at the game was 93, 103, setting a record at that time for the largest crowd to attend a Major League Baseball game.

The largest crowd ever seated for a college football game at the stadium was 80, 470 for the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, where the Tennessee Volunteers beat the Florida State Seminoles, 23-16 on January 4, 1999 to win the National Championship.

Norman performed a fifteen minute set before his largest ever crowd at the eight hour Jesus Music Festival that attracted an estimated 180, 000 people to a speedway at the uncompleted Woodall Rodgers Freeway near Dallas, Texas.

The Philadelphia Wings defeat the New Jersey Saints 17-11 at the Spectrum before a crowd of 14, 903, the largest of 1987.

At the Fast Day, 7 October 1857, he preached to the largest crowd ever – 23, 654 people – at The Crystal Palace in London.

Organizers of the games said they considered the protests to be a non-event and that the Crystal Lake crowd was one of the largest at any July 16 event.

The King Frost Parade has been a presence in the town ever since and boasts the title of “ Largest Fall Extravaganza Parade on the East Coast .” With an average crowd of 20000 and a budget over $ 30000, this is one of Hamburg ’ s largest public events.

The following evening they played Bradenton, Florida at Lamade Stadium before the largest crowd ever to watch a Non-championship game.

The largest crowd for a Challenge Cup final at Wembley was set in 1985 when Wigan beat Hull F. C.

`` Old Knife's got the largest war party ever seen on the river '', he said calmly.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

The miserable people of China, the largest cast ever conscripted to enact an ideological passion play, cannot themselves resist overtly.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

He had obtained and provisioned a veteran ship called the Discovery and had recruited a crew of twenty-one, the largest he had ever commanded.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

Certainly not the largest afternoon audience Newport has ever had at a jazz concert and the most attentive and quiet.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

At 2. 5 troy oz ( 78 g ) gold, this is the largest ( by weight ) coin ever produced by the U. S. Mint.

Landing men on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($ 24 billion ), ever made by any nation in peacetime.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

Antonov An-225, the largest aeroplane ever built.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

Following charges of illegal marketing, settlements by two large pharmaceutical companies in the US set records for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations.

The AWG-9 radar system carried by the F-111B and F-14 Tomcat was one of largest and most powerful ever fitted to a fighter.

It provides investment products and services and attracts the majority of the corporate business deals in The Bahamas, most recently acting as financial advisor and placement agent for the largest Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) ever in The Bahamas with the IPO of Commonwealth Brewery, a Heineken subsidiary.

* Model 34 Twin-Quad Prototype small airliner ; the largest aircraft ever built by Beechcraft

At in length and or more in weight, it is the largest known animal to have ever existed.

Shipbuilding peaked in the 1850s, marked in 1851 by the full rigged ship Lord Clarendon, the largest wooden ship ever built in Cape Breton.

By area of extent, it was one of the largest empires ever in history.

With over 1800 participants, the 2011 Oxford University " Cuppers " ( inter-college ) tournament claimed to be not only the largest croquet tournament ever, but the largest sporting event in the University.