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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, Oly-11th-1996

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 US 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

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 Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)

1929 Adm 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 Capt 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, Adm 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

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 Capt James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole

1800 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole

1774 Capt 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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