This Day in Track & Field, Lon Meyers, loosing a shoe, sets WR at 400m in 49.2 (1879), Gunder Hägg breaks 14 minutes for 5,000m (1942), by Walt Murphy News and Results Services

This Day in Track & Field–September 20

1879—Despite losing a shoe that split open during the race, Lon Myers, a charter member of the National Hall-of-Fame, set a pre-IAAF World Record of 49.2  for 400-meters at the NYAC Fall Games, which were held on the 352y Mott Haven track. He also set an American Record of 22-3/4 in the 220y.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Myers

1925—Sweden’s Gunnar Lindstrom threw the javelin 220-10 (67.31) in Oslo, more than two feet past his own World Record, of 218-7 (66.62), but the mark was not ratified by the IAAF because there was a following wind!                                                      WR Progression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_javelin_throw_world_record_progression

1942—Sweden’s Gunder Hägg became the first man to break 14-minutes in the 5000-meters, running 13:58.2 in Gothenburg to take more than 10 seconds off the previous World Record of 14:08.8. He also got credit for a new WR at   3-miles (13:32.4). This gave Hägg a clean sweep of the current WRs for every event from 1500-meters to…