2004 American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000
1997 Chicago Bull's coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins
1996 Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits
1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
1995 Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits
1993 Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
1992 Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI
1991 Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1990 U.S. forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat)
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs (approx 128 at bat)
1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top
1989 Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1983 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
1982 Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1980 Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1975 Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, D.C.
1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1962 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched
1962 Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
1961 Explorer 10 fails to reach Earth orbit
1960 1st United Nations troops reach Congo
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1960 Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
1956 Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt
1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season
1953 Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
1951 U.N. arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict
1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
1945 Soviet army reach Rostock
1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands
1945 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa
1945 U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
1944 Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren
1944 Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1943 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
1941 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France
1940 Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
1932 Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
1926 France and U.S. reach accord on repayment of WW I
1926 Lyndon Brook, actor, Invasion, Reach for the Sky
1925 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
1924 Bayern and Vatican reach accord
1919 Yanks and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal
1914 At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
1909 David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole
1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't
1900 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1899 British troops reach Durban Natal
1899 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1898 French troops reach Guinea and Sudan, Samori caught
1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan
1894 French capt Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft. Salisbury)
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
1866 Matthew A. Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole, Jun 4 1909
1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro North Carolina
1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse
1864 General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins
1864 Gen Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.
1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
1853 Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia
1806 English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1806 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast
1805 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
1805 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean
1711 Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St. Lawrence
1683 Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald
1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
1650 Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army
1627 English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle
1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
1600 Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
1596 English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1585 English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen
1396 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1212 Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1165 Ramjbam and his family reach Acre Palestine
1065 Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
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