7th November 1965 - Art Arfons sets land-speed record
A drag racer from Ohio named Art Arfons sets the land-speed record—an average 576.553 miles per hour—at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. Arfons drove a jet-powered machine, known as the Green Monster, which he’d built himself out of surplus parts.
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