Other 6,000s That Were A Big Deal

The Dow Jones industrial average’s climb to 6,000 points is news around the world, but there are other recent feats where 6,000 also represented a record:

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY: $6,000, a record sum paid for the grand champion lamb, a 134-pounder at a 4H club champion livestock sale in Omaha, Neb., Oct. 1.

HORSES: 6,000 first-place finishes, achieved by at least six drivers in the U.S. harness-racing circuit.

SKYDIVING: 6,000 meters, the highest free-fall in formation, by 297 skydivers holding each other’s limbs for 7 seconds over the Black Sea town of Anapa on Sept. 27.

TRANS-OCEAN ADVENTURE: 6,000 kilometers, a record distance for a solo, nonstop voyage aboard a small boat equipped with solar power, by Japanese explorer-adventurer Kenichi Horie, between Hawaii and the Chichi-Jima Islands south of Japan, in 1985. Horie also set a 1992 Guinness world record by navigating a pedal boat from Hawaii to Okinawa, also about 6,000 kilometers.