2015 Event British Petroleum (BP) reaches a settlement with U.S. federal, state and local government entities regarding damages from its Deepwater Horizon rig explosion five years ago; BP will pay USD $18 billion through the year 2030 2015 Event Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., reaches a new snowfall record of 108.6 inches and may receive even more snow this season; the city's previous record of 107.6 inches was set in the winter of 1995-1996 2014 Event A grand jury in St. Louis County reaches the decision that police officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted in the shooting death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown; the decision sparked protests, looting and businesses being burned to the ground in St. Louis, as well as protests across the U.S. 2013 Event Within days of its launch, the 'Grand Theft Auto V' videogame reaches sales of $1billion, becoming the fastest single entertainment product ever to achieve these sales 2013 Event Unemployment in France reaches a record level of 3.22 million people 2013 Event The air pollution in Beijing reaches levels deemed hazardous to human health 2012 Event The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike 2012 Event The Mega Millions jackpot in the U.S. reaches a world record in lottery history - $500 million dollars 2011 Event The death toll from Tropical Storm Washi in the Philippines reaches 1,002, and is expected to rise 2011 Event The price of gold reaches a new record after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announces plans to nationalize his country's gold industry 2011 Event As the Australian dollar reaches new 29-year highs against the U.S. dollar, rising interest rates are predicted 2011 Event One hour before the deadline, the U.S. Congress reaches a deal on the 2011 U.S. federal budget, avoiding a government shutdown 2011 Event Bolstered by strong employment figures for March, the Australian dollar reaches a 28-year high against the U.S. dollar 2011 Event In China, the yuan reaches a record level against the U.S. dollar 2011 Event The moon appears 30% brighter and 14% larger than at its furthest point; it reaches its closest point to Earth since 1993 2011 Event Inflation in the People's Republic of China reaches 4.9% 2010 Event The internet population in China reaches 450 million 2010 Event China's inflation rate reaches 5.1%, a 28-month high 2010 Event The Australian dollar reaches the highest level in 27 years against the U.S. dollar 2010 Event Wild celebrations occur as a drill reaches an underground chamber with 33-trapped Chilean miners inside 2010 Event A drill reaches 33 Chilean miners who remain trapped underground after the 2010 Copiapo mining accident August 5, 2010 2010 Event The Deepwater Horizon oil spill reaches the Louisiana Coast; weather is projected to impede cleanup efforts 2009 Event Internet traffic reaches unprecedented levels after entertainer Michael Jackson's death triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief 2008 Event Oil reaches $100 per barrel for the first time 2006 Event United States population reaches 300 million people 1997 Event Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH 1997 Event 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole 1997 Event White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time 1997 Event O. J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages 1994 Event Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 1994 Event Borge Ousland reaches North pole 1993 Event Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86 1993 Event Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points 1993 Event Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th 1990 Event John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row 1989 Event France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph 1987 Event Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42 1986 Event Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole 1986 Event Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) 1983 Event Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car 1982 Event U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982 1982 Event Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico 1980 Event Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce 1979 Event Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph 1979 Event Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time 1975 Event Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 1973 Event Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter 1971 Event Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times 1970 Event NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) 1970 Event "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 1969 Event Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 1969 Event Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1 1969 Event Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris 1968 Event William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight) 1968 Event Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London 1967 Event U.S. population reaches 200 million 1967 Event Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km 1967 Event Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km 1967 Event Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1 1966 Event Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon 1966 Event William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km 1966 Event Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 1965 Event Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km 1965 Event Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km 1965 Event Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km 1965 Event USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15 1965 Event Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 1964 Event Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1964 Event Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1 1964 Event Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1 1963 Event 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km 1963 Event NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) 1963 Event NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km 1963 Event USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m 1963 Birthday Joel Osteen, born in Houston, Texas, pastor, Lakewood Church, ministry reaches over seven million viewers per week in the U.S., author of 'Your Best Life Now' 1963 Event Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon 1961 Event U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back 1961 Event Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km 1960 Event Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight 1960 Event Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1 1960 Event Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 1960 Event Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km 1959 Event USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter 1958 Event "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 1958 Event U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back 1958 Event 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back 1958 Event Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record) 1958 Event Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 1958 Event Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 1958 Event Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland 1957 Event Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1 1957 Event Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1 1957 Event "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1 1957 Event "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 1957 Event U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon 1957 Event David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon 1957 Event Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km 1956 Death Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash 1956 Event Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1 1954 Event PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting 1953 Event Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane 1953 Event Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m 1951 Event Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph 1951 Event U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record 1950 Event French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal 1949 Event Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000 1948 Event U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) 1946 Event U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM 1945 Event U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb 1945 Event 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa 1945 Event U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border 1944 Event U.S. 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall 1944 Event Tito reaches free Belgrade 1944 Event France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame 1944 Event U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes 1944 Event U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris 1944 Event U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux 1944 Event U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres 1944 Event U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany 1944 Event British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy 1944 Event U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy 1944 Event 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line 1943 Event 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp 1943 Event 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 Event British militia reaches Tito 1943 Event Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa 1942 Event British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter 1942 Event U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea 1942 Event Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo 1942 Event Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus 1941 Event British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk 1941 Event Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4 1941 Event Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR 1939 Event British Expeditionary Force reaches France 1939 Event Nazi army reaches Warsaw 1939 Event General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw 1935 Event Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi 1933 Event Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record) 1928 Event Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car 1924 Event 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java) 1923 Event Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917 1921 Event Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot 1920 Event Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany 1914 Event British fleet reaches Scapa Flow 1912 Event Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship 1909 Event Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south 1905 Event Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville 1899 Event British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1899 Event 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa 1898 Event Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo 1897 Event Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island 1897 Event Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia 1896 Event Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa 1895 Event French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar 1894 Event Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki 1891 Event Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria 1889 Event Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean 1888 Event Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa 1887 Event Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo 1887 Event Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo 1886 Event 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC 1885 Event News of fall of Khartoum reaches London 1883 Event French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger 1882 Event British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 1879 Event News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London 1877 Event Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa 1877 Event Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo 1876 Event Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River 1875 Event Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa 1875 Event Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast 1871 Event Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa 1860 Event 1st railroad reaches Kansas 1860 Event 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California 1850 Event Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia 1836 Event Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands 1836 Event HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia 1835 Event Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile 1835 Event Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes 1834 Event Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana, Chile 1834 Event Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 1833 Event Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay 1833 Event Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana 1833 Event Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero, Argentina 1833 Event HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina 1833 Event HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro 1833 Event Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland 1832 Event HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands 1832 Event Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro 1831 Event Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole 1827 Event Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge 1823 Event English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole 1812 Event French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow 1809 Event Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chasse reaches Madrid 1808 Event Zebulon Pike reaches his peak 1804 Event British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao 1798 Event Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt 1789 Event Captain William Blighs reaches Timor 1787 Event Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc 1783 Event 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude 1778 Event Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits 1774 Event Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) 1745 Event Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby 1745 Event French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland 1745 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland 1745 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland 1741 Event English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena 1720 Event "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000 1709 Event 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 1694 Event English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest 1660 Event General Moncks army reaches London 1630 Event Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil 1627 Event English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle 1624 Event Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru 1620 Event Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast 1608 Event Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague 1604 Event Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam 1598 Event Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java 1597 Event Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java 1596 Event Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java 1590 Event Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda 1566 Event Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam 1566 Event Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium 1565 Event King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels 1535 Event French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) 1534 Event French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland 1521 Event Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu 1521 Event Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines 1517 Event Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay 1396 Event Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis 1165 Event Rambam reaches Jerusalem
