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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