1992 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention
1990 FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies
1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1984 Randall Thompson, U.S. composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85
1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
1979 President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1978 VP Walter F. Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
1970 Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
1961 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles)
1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
1960 U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
1958 Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole
1957 Donna Dixon, Virginia, Mrs. Dan Ackwoyd/actress, Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
1950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1945 Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37
1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1940 Peter Fonda, actor, Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip
1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1924 Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo, Interiors, Trip to Bountiful
1921 "Boy" [FHP] Trip, Dutch minister
1919 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 and Trip Crown
1918 Ted Williams, hitter, Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47
1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
1903 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in San Francisco; arrives New York 3-months later
1903 1st automobile trip across U.S. from San Francisco to New York, ended April 1
1903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Francisco (George Wymann)
1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1902 1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon
1899 Randall Thompson, born in New York City, composer, Trip to Nahant
1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
1890 Pim Mulier 1st and only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
1889 New York World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6
1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos)
1877 Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa
1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, New York City
1871 Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1854 U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1846 Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1833 Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires
1832 Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1831 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston, SC
1809 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet, Trip to H Land
1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home
1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1776 Capt Cook begins 3rd and last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1776 Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1772 Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1766 John Byron back in England after trip around the world
1698 Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1599 Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35
1564 John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America
1522 Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1502 Columbus begins 4th and last trip to "Indies"
1502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to New World
1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1497 John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
1497 Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1493 Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip
1325 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca
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