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1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1995 Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) 1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun 1994 Borge Ousland reaches North pole 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m) 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m) 1992 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) 1992 Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole 1992 Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) 1992 Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault and eliminated from Olympics decathlon 1991 Sergeo Bubka of U.S.S.R. sets pole vault record (20'") in Malmo Sweden 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m) 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20' 1990 Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun 1989 Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) 1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington 1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole 1984 Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m 1982 -117 degrees F; All time low at South Pole 1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone 1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole 1974 James Miller, Australian pole vaulter 1996 Olympics 1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole 1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m 1971 William Deering, Jr., South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole 1969 Konstantin Semyonov, Israel, Men's pole vaulter, 1996 Olympics 1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) 1967 Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3" 1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) 1966 Simon Arkell, Australian pole vaulter, Olympics-17th-92, 96 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record 1965 Rodion Gataullin, Uzbekistan, pole vaulter, Olympics-silver-88 1963 Sergey Bubka, Ukraine, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 88, 92 1963 Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer, South Pole 1962 Kory Tarpenning, born in Portland, Oregon, pole vaulter 1962 John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm 1962 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games) 1958 Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76 1958 U.S. nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole 1958 U.S. nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) 1958 Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole 1958 U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland 1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek 1955 Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88 1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins 1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole 1951 1st North Pole jet crossing 1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair 1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4' platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and stays 117 days) 1946 Bob Seagren, Pomona California, actor, Soap, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 68 1945 Fred Hansen, U.S., pole vaulter 1964 Olympic gold 1942 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8") 1940 Frederick A Cook, U.S., explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 1940 John Pennel, pole vaulter, James E Sullivan Award-1963 1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft 1939 Peter Revson, auto racer, 1971 Indianapolis pole winner 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1933 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 1930 Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1929 Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" 1929 Admiral Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight 1928 Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies 1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again 1926 Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole 1926 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole 1926 Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole 1926 1st flight over North Pole by Bennett and Byrd 1926 Robert Eugene Richards, Illinois, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 48, 52, 56 1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole 1922 Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 1920 Robert E Peary, U.S. pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 1914 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" 1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far" 1912 Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies 1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen 1911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen 1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1911 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole 1909 University of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole 1909 Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson 1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1909 David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole 1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole 1908 Edward R. Murrow, Pole Creek, North Carolina, newscaster, Person to Person 1908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't 1907 Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, La civilisation du phoque 1906 H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole 1906 Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole 1897 Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole 1882 Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole 1879 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer, Thule 1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole 1872 Roald Amundsen, born in Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole 1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1866 Matthew A. Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole, Jun 4 1909 1865 Frederick A. Cook, U.S., explorer, claimed falsely to be at North Pole 1838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails 1831 Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole 1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole 1800 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole 1774 Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) 1558 Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58 1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury 1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo 1537 Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England 1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 1500 Reginald Pole, English Cardinal 1487 Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell |
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