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Key Record Scientist John Lilly (USA) designs – and is the first to have a dip in – the first sensory deprivation tank. 1954 1955 27 August 1955 The first edition of The Guinness Book of Records is bound and released in the UK. It became a Christmas best-seller that year. 1956 First US edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published.