ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY - 31/12/1964 1957

DECEMBER 31st: DONALD CAMPBELL 31/12/1964: Campbell breaks his own Water Speed record, by achieving 276.33 mph on Coniston Water. DONALD CAMPBELL 1957: Mr Donald Campbell sitting in the cockpit of his hydroplane Bluebird at Coniston Water in the Lake District. Mr Campbell is preparing to attack his own world water speed record of 225.63mph. 25/10/02 : Mr Donald Campbell sitting in the cockpit of his hydroplane Bluebird at Coniston Water in the Lake District. Donald Campbell was destined to break speed records on water and land. Son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, who set the land speed record in 1935, he was born in Horley, Surrey, in March 1921.