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Knievel Week will be here before you know it!
Check out what is coming up in
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Injury List
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Injury List |
Evel Knievel's
fame as a motorcycle daredevil has come at a price: multiple
fractures of many of his bones. 14 open-reduction surgeries (to
repair or replace bones, some with steel screws, pins or rods) and,
over his career, 36 months in the hospital. |
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Event |
Results |
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Jan. 1st, 1968 |
Fountains - Caesar's
Palace in Los Vegas |
Crashed |
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Sept. 20th, 1970 |
13
cars in Seattle, WA |
Successful |
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Jan. 8th, 1971 |
13
cars at the
Houston Astrodome |
Successful |
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Feb. 28th, 1971 |
Set
World record at Ontario, CA by jumping 19 Dodge cars. |
Successful |
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May 10th, 1971 |
13
Pepsi Cola trucks in Yakima, WA |
Crashed |
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March 3rd, 1972 |
San
Francisco's
Cow Palace |
Crashed |
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Feb. 18th, 1973 |
50
cars at Los
Angeles Coliseum |
Successful |
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August 20th, 1974 |
135
feet over 13 - eight foot wide Mack Trucks at the Canadian National
Exposition. |
Successful |
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Sept. 8th, 1974 |
1/4
mile - Skycycle
Snake River Canyon |
Unsuccessful |
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May 31st, 1975 |
13
double-tiered buses - Wembley Stadium in London, England |
Crashed |
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October 25th, 1975 |
14
Greyhound buses at King's Island in Ohio. |
Successful |
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