2006 United States population reaches 300 million people
1997 Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH
1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time
1997 O. J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
1994 Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
1994 Borge Ousland reaches North pole
1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
1993 Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row
1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1983 Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
1982 U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico
1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph
1979 Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time
1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
1973 Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1971 Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
1970 NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1969 Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1
1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
1969 U.S. population reaches 200 million
1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1967 Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1966 Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1964 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
1964 Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1961 U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
1960 Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1
1960 Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1
1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1958 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record)
1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
1957 Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1
1957 Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
1957 "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1
1957 "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1
1957 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1956 Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1951 U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record
1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1948 U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1945 U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
1945 U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border
1944 US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade
1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1944 U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
1944 U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
1944 U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
1943 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1943 British militia reaches Tito
1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
1942 British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
1942 Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4
1941 Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR
1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France
1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw
1939 Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
1935 Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi
1933 Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record)
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1924 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java)
1923 Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot
1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
1912 Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south
1905 Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville
1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1899 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa
1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo
1897 Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island
1897 Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia
1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa
1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
1894 Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria
1889 Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
1887 Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo
1887 Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo
1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
1883 French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
1877 Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa
1877 Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo
1876 Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River
1875 Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa
1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast
1871 Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California
1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena
1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
1836 HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti
1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago
1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
1835 Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile
1835 Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
1834 Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1833 Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
1833 Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina
1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1833 HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
1833 Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1832 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1 degrees N, 29 degrees W)
1831 Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1827 Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge
1823 English Capt James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole
1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1809 Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid
1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
1804 British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao
1798 Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1789 Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
1787 Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
1774 Capt Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
1745 Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1720 "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1694 English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest
1660 General Moncks army reaches London
1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1627 English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle
1624 Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast
1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
1604 Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam
1598 Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java
1597 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
1596 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java
1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1566 Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1566 Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1565 King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels
1535 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
1521 Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1517 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1396 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis
1165 Rambam reaches Jerusalem
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