Guinness World Record holders

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The 2010 World Record for "Largest Pot of Baked Beans" being set at the Alabama Butterbean Festival.

This is a list of Guinness World Record holders, including only those recognized by Guinness World Records Ltd. of London, England. Not all records compiled appear in the printed Guinness Book of World Records.

1950s

1960s

  • November 12, 1965: "Largest object transported by railway," a 106-foot tall reactor weighing 600 tons was transported by rail from Birmingham to Toledo, Ohio. The record still stands. (link)

1970s

1980s

  • 1981: "Longest jail sentence (single count)," was 10,000 years, given to Dudley Kyzer for the 1976 murder of his estranged wife, Emily in Tuscaloosa County. He received two additional life sentences without parole for the deaths of two other victims in the same incident. He was most recently denied parole in 2016. The record still stands. (link)
  • May 1981: "Largest chair", a 2000-pound, 33-foot 1-inch tall and 19-foot 7-inch wide office chair constructed by Anniston Steel & Plumbing Co. for display at Miller Office Furniture in Anniston. The current record is a 98-foot 5-inch (30m) chair building by XXXLutz and Holzleimbauwerk Wiehag GmbH in Sankt Florian, Austria and recorded on February 9, 2009 (link)
  • 1982: "Most years flying by an active pilot," held by Glenn Messer who began flying airplanes in 1911. He was forced to stop after losing his right eye to an infection suffered during cataract surgery at Brookwood Hospital. (story)
  • November 7, 1982: "Longest continuous team jump roping marathon", lasting 51 hours and 5 minutes, was set by 22 Rocky Ridge Elementary School students led by physical education director Pat Floyd. The event benefitted the American Heart Association Fund. (story)
  • March 19, 1983: "Longest marathon playing tennis (singles)", lasting more than 110 hours, 14 minutes, was attempted by tennis pro Ken Vines and staffer Andy Kogoy at Altadena Country Club during AEA Week. The current recognized record is 80 hours, 48 minutes, set by Karl Straßberger and Friedrich Nowak in Langenwang, Austria on August 11, 2022. (story)
  • June 27, 1984: "Longest motorcycle wheelie," Doug Domokos completed 145 miles (54 laps) on the back wheel of a motorcycle at the Talladega Superspeedway, averaging 50 miles per hour before running out of gas.
  • 1987: "Largest number of tomatoes from four plants," recorded as 1,368 pounds of "Better Boy" tomatoes, grown by Charles Wilbur of Crane Hill, a photograph of which graced the cover of the 1987 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. (story)
  • May 5, 1985: "Fastest 500-mile race" set by Bill Elliott with an average speed of 186.288 miles per hour when he won the 1985 Winston 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway.
  • November 26, 1985: "Fastest average lap speed on a closed-circuit track by a woman racer,", 204.223 miles per hour, set by Lyn St James at the Talladega Superspeedway in a Mustang Probe.
  • December 31, 1985: "Largest kazoo ensemble" of 45,000 at the 1985 All-American Bowl at Legion Field, led by musician Wilson Pickett, performed "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Auld Lang Syne" to break a record set months earlier at Vanderbilt University in Knoxville, Tennessee. Supreme Beverage Co. sponsored the event by providing 60,000 plastic kazoos to be handed out by children at the game. The current recognized record is 5,190 performers taking part in the "Big Red Nose Show" at London's Royal Albert Hall on March 14, 2011. (link)
  • June 30, 1986: "Longest waterski jump (men)" of 203 feet (61.9m) set by Michael Hazelwood of Great Britain at a meet in Birmingham. The current record is 253 feet 11 inches (77.4m) set by Ryan Dodd on July 1, 2009 in Palm Bay, Florida. (link)
  • April 30, 1987: "fastest NASCAR qualifier," 212.809 miles per hour, set by Bill Elliott at Talladega Superspeedway in a Ford Thunderbird.
  • 1987: "Tallest okra plant," measured at 17 feet, 6 1/4" inches, grown by Charles Wilbur of Crane Hill and published on page 74 of the 1987 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. The current acknowledged record is 16 feet, 4.85 inches, grown by Jack Reno Sweeney of New Orleans, Louisiana and recorded on March 23, 2022. (link)
  • 1988: "Most sales on a single cash register in one day," is 17,500, set by Harold Ruttenberg, owner of Two Feet Ahead at Century Plaza, recorded in the 1988 edition of Guinness Book of World Records. (story)
  • April 30, 1988: "Largest car wash" was attempted by volunteers for Camp Smile-A-Mile at 20 locations across the Birmingham area. The current recognized record for "Most cars washed in eight hours (team)" was set by students of Carroll High School in Yakima, Washington who washed 3,844 on May 7, 1983. (advertisement)
  • October 18, 1989: "Largest cake" was a 100,000 pound birthday cake assembled for Fort Payne's 100th anniversary. It was baked by Earth Grains Bakery and cut by centenarian Ed Henderson and singer Randy Owen using a sword. (story)

1990s

  • 1992: "Most siblings to obtain a Bachelor degree," 15 of Dan and Helen Fagan's 16 children from Bessemer completed bachelor's degrees between 1969 and 1992. The record still stands. (link)

2000s

  • November 16, 2003: "Most American Music Awards won by a group," given to the country group Alabama with 23 American Music Awards between 1983 and 2003. The record still stands. (link)
  • April 24, 2004: "Largest bubblegum bubble blown," was 20 inches in diameter, blown by Chad Fell at Double Springs High School using three pieces of Dubble Bubble. The record still stands. (link)
  • April 27, 2004: "World's oldest living chicken," Matilda, owned by Keith and Donna Barton was certified by Guinness as the oldest living specimen of Gallus gallus domesticus when she was 11 years old. Matilda died on February 11, 2006 at the age of 16. The current record for "oldest chicken ever" was set on November 30, 2011 by then 22-year-old "Muffy", who lived to 23 years, 152 days. There is no current holder of this record listed. (link)
  • 2006: "Best-selling ringtone oldie" is "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, with 1.2 million sales. The record still stands. (link)
  • September 14, 2007: "Highest number counted out loud," Jeremy Harper counted to 1,000,000 at a pace of 11,200 numbers per day over 89 16-hour days. The record still stands. (link)
  • October 7, 2007: "Most restrictor plate victories, career, NASCAR," the record of 12 was set by Jeff Gordon when he won the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, besting Dale Earnhardt's record of 11. (link)
  • April 26, 2009: "Most vehicles to run over a person." King's Ranch founder Tom Owen broke his own previous record by having 9 trucks, each weighing between 6,600 and 8,800 pounds (3,000–4,000 kg) run over him on the set of "Lo Show Dei Record" in Milan, Italy. (link)

2010s

  • September 4, 2010: "Largest pot of baked beans", 1,010.65 gallons of butterbeans, prepared in a custom built 4-foot tall, 86-inch diameter pot by Todd Jackson and his team from Jefferson State Community College at the Alabama Butterbean Festival in Pinson. The current record of 1,479.36 gallons (5,600 liters) was set by Davcev Stojan and DASTO in Sarcievo Village, Macedonia on August 7, 2012. (link)
  • April 17, 2011: "Closest margin of victory, NASCAR race," at 0.002 seconds, was tied by Jimmie Johnson beat Clint Bowyer in the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway. The previous record has been set by Rickey Craven and Kurt Busch in 2003 at the Darlington Raceway, in Darlington, South Carolina. (link)
  • July 27, 2012: "Most people in a Chinese finger trap chain", set by 920 participants of the 2012 Motion Student Conference at Church of the Highlands. The record still stands. (link)
  • August 1, 2012: "Most times for a golfer to score their age or below in 24 hours," set by 71-year-old Bub Kurtz of Scottsdale, Arizona with 5 rounds under 71 during a charity event for Victim Services of Cullman at the Chesley Oaks Golf Course. The record still stands. (link)
  • March 19, 2014: "Largest motorcycle museum", the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum claimed the record by documenting 1,398 unique exhibits on 144,000 square feet of floor area in an 830-acre complex. The record still stands. (link)
  • January 22, 2015: "Most prolific videogame voice actor (female)." Jennifer Hale claimed the record with 168 roles. The record still stands. (link)
  • November 16, 2018: "Largest human image of a shield," created by 394 volunteers for the Salvation Army of Greater Birmingham for the kick-off of their annual fund-raising campaign. The record still stands. (link)
  • April 19, 2015: "Most consecutive wins of Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards," given to the country group Alabama with 5 consecutive wins from 1981 to 1985. The record, awarded in 2015, still stands. (link)
  • June 17, 2015: "oldest living person," Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York, born July 6, 1899 in Lowndes County, was certified as the oldest living person following the death of Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Michigan, 10 days shy of her 116th birthday. She died on May 12, 2016, passing the title to Emma Morano of Verbania, Italy, 146 days her junior and the last living person born in the 19th century.
  • April 10, 2016: "Oldest match-winner on the ITF circuit," 69-year-old Gail Falkenberg of Florida, defeated 22-year-old Rosalyn Small in the first qualifying round of the International Tennis Federation's 2016 ITF Futures tournament in Pelham. The record still stands. (link)
  • June 11, 2016: "Fastest half marathon in a two-person pantomime costume,", set by Donny Barnes and Anthony Parameswaran, wearing a camel costume at the Tallulah Half Marathon in Jasper with a time of 1 hour, 42 minutes, 47 seconds. The record still stands. (link)
  • May 8, 2019: "Largest horn spread on a living steer" and "largest horn spread on a steer ever", claimed by Poncho Via, a 7-year old Texas longhorn raised by Jeral Pope in Goodwater with a measurement of 10 feet, 7.4 inches (323.74 cm) from tip to tip. Both records still stand. (link, link)
  • July 6, 2019: "Waterskiing slalom (women)", Regina Jacquess of Atlanta, Georgia set an International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) record with 4.5 buoys at 10.25 meters during the 2019 Regina Jaquess Open II tournament at LymanLand USA near Duncanville. She broke her own records several times and is the current holder. (link)

2020s

Undated

  • "Largest cave opening," is held by Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County with an opening 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. (link)
  • "Largest marine mammal," is the Basilosaurus, measuring up to 70 feet in length

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