2014 Event Renaud Lavillenie, French champion pole vaulter, breaks the previous height record, held by athlete Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars meet in Donetsk, Ukraine; Lavillenie reached 6.16 meters indoors, exceeding Bubka's world record of 6.15 m indoors achieved in 1993 2014 Event A new world record is achieved by the United Kingdom's Lewis Clarke of Bristol; the 16 year-old becomes the youngest person to trek to the South Pole 2014 Event Record-low temperatures are expected in the U.S. due to a 'polar vortex'; forecasters anticipate this tunnel of cold air funneling all the way from the North Pole to the U.S. could bring temperatures as low as 15 degrees in Chicago and 25 below zero in Fargo, North Dakota 2013 Event In racing, Danica Patrick becomes the first woman at the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series to win pole position 2012 Event New findings from MESSENGER, NASA's space probe, indicate almost definitively, that the north pole of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has water ice buried beneath the surface 2011 Event The South Pole records its warmest temperature at -12.3 degrees Celsius at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station 1997 Event 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole 1995 Death Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87 1995 Event Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) 1995 Event Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) 1994 Event Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun 1994 Event Borge Ousland reaches North pole 1993 Event Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m) 1993 Event Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m) 1992 Event Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) 1992 Event Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole 1992 Event Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) 1992 Event Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault and eliminated from Olympics decathlon 1991 Event Sergeo Bubka of U.S.S.R. sets pole vault record (20'") in Malmo Sweden 1991 Event Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m) 1991 Event Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20' 1990 Event Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun 1989 Event Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) 1988 Event Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington 1986 Event Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole 1984 Event Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m 1982 Event -117 degrees F; All time low at South Pole 1978 Event Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone 1977 Event Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole 1974 Birthday James Miller, Australian pole vaulter 1996 Olympics 1972 Event Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole 1972 Event Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m 1971 Birthday William Deering, Jr., South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter 1971 Event Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole 1969 Birthday Konstantin Semyonov, Israel, Men's pole vaulter, 1996 Olympics 1969 Event John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) 1967 Event Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3" 1966 Event John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) 1966 Birthday Simon Arkell, Australian pole vaulter, Olympics-17th-92, 96 1966 Event Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record 1965 Birthday Rodion Gataullin, Uzbekistan, pole vaulter, Olympics-silver-88 1963 Birthday Sergey Bubka, Ukraine, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 88, 92 1963 Birthday Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer, South Pole 1962 Birthday Kory Tarpenning, born in Portland, Oregon, pole vaulter 1962 Event John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm 1962 Event 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games) 1958 Death 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 Event U.S. nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole 1958 Event U.S. nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) 1958 Event Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole 1958 Event U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 1958 Event Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland 1956 Event 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek 1955 Death Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88 1954 Event 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins 1952 Event 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole 1951 Event 1st North Pole jet crossing 1951 Event 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair 1949 Event 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 Birthday Bob Seagren, Pomona California, actor, Soap, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 68 1945 Birthday Fred Hansen, U.S., pole vaulter 1964 Olympic gold 1942 Event 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8") 1940 Death Frederick A Cook, U.S., explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 1940 Birthday John Pennel, pole vaulter, James E Sullivan Award-1963 1940 Event Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft 1939 Birthday Peter Revson, auto racer, 1971 Indianapolis pole winner 1938 Event Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1933 Death Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 1930 Event Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1929 Event Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" 1929 Event Admiral Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight 1928 Death Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies 1928 Event Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again 1926 Event Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole 1926 Event Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole 1926 Event Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole 1926 Event 1st flight over North Pole by Bennett and Byrd 1926 Birthday Robert Eugene Richards, Illinois, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 48, 52, 56 1925 Event Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole 1922 Death Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 1920 Death Robert E Peary, U.S. pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 1914 Event 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" 1912 Event Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far" 1912 Death Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies 1912 Event Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole 1912 Event English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1912 Event Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen 1911 Event South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen 1911 Event Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1911 Event Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole 1909 Event University of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole 1909 Event Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier 1909 Event North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson 1909 Event British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1909 Event David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole 1908 Event Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole 1908 Birthday Edward R. Murrow, Pole Creek, North Carolina, newscaster, Person to Person 1908 Event Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't 1907 Birthday Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, La civilisation du phoque 1906 Birthday H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole 1906 Event Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole 1897 Event Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole 1882 Birthday Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole 1879 Birthday Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer, Thule 1878 Event New York installs 1st firehouse pole 1872 Birthday Roald Amundsen, born in Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole 1868 Birthday Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1866 Birthday Matthew A. Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole, Jun 4 1909 1865 Birthday Frederick A. Cook, U.S., explorer, claimed falsely to be at North Pole 1838 Event Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails 1831 Event Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole 1823 Event English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole 1800 Event James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole 1774 Event Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) 1558 Death Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58 1556 Event Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury 1539 Event Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo 1537 Event Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England 1536 Event English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 1500 Birthday Reginald Pole, English Cardinal 1487 Event Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell
