The sixth annual award, the art world's equivalent of the Booker literary prize, attracted a record number of nominations from the public this year, of over 120 artists.
The 2015 final of Bake Off, won by Hussain, attracted a record audience of more than 13 million viewers, making it the highest rating show of the year.
Dresden police have launched a murder investigation in the east German city that has been making headlines recently for its anti-immigrant rallies, which, on the night of Bahray's death, attracted a record number of 25,000 supporters.
This year's Winter Olympics in Sochi cost Russia an estimated $51 billion, NBC paid almost $800 million for the rights to broadcast, and the Games have attracted a record number of advertisers with the total value of contracts with sponsors, suppliers and licensees totaling almost half a trillion dollars.
Money market funds attracted a record $375 billion of new money, and assets reached a high of $2.29 trillion.
According to Ian Kelleher, RM's chief operating officer, the sale attracted a record number of bidder registrations for the event, and a number of cars that could be considered "sensitive" in the marketplace sold quite well.
The next day in Ohio we sensed the result when the conservative Democratic senator, Frank Lausche, decided to show up for the motorcade, which attracted a record number of spectators along the route, including an extraordinary number of female "leapers" (young women who jumped to see Kennedy as his car passed).
And because of its active re-interpretation of the characters, scenes and visual effects, at its first venue in Seoul it attracted a record crowd of 180,000 viewers and it then explosively drew a total of 1,500,000 attendants.
The first of these is the Dawn Service, an event that attracted a record crowd of more than 35,000 in 2007.
The municipal elections in New York City this year have attracted a record number of candidates to the campaign finance program, with 324 enrolled as of the deadline yesterday, although that total will most likely jump even more once applications in the mail are counted.
