September 21st
Ernst Jakob Henne took a new record at Ingolstadt, Germany on a BMW WR 750 - 221.67 kph.
Motorcycle Land Speed Records
The Bremerhavener Fischereihafen-Rennen held for the first time.
Road Racing in Germany
Evel Knievel batters Sheldon Saltman with a baseball bat.
Saltman, who promoted the Snake River Canyon event, wrote that Kneivel was "an alcoholic, a pill addict, an anti-Semite and an immoral person." Knievel was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $12.75 million. The money was never paid.
Knievel's 290-page FBI file reveals that agents believed he was involved in a string of beatings in Phoenix, Kansas City and San Francisco.
Knievel Sentenced