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2002 Barbara Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 54

2002 Galen Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 61

1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society, dies at 80

1966 Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90

1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole

1948 Boyd Matson, TV host/correspondent, National Geographic Explorer

1945 Sam Abell, born in Toledo, Ohio, photographer, published in National Geographic, artistic photographic style, noted for transcendent qualities, graduate, University of Kentucky, photographic books include 'The Photographic Life', 'The Life of a Photograph'

1942 Admiral Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map

1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos

1911 Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society

1896 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag

1896 Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society

1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time

1888 National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C.

1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.


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