2015 Event A powerful blizzard covers Boston and nearby New England areas with over two feet of snow under winds that reach over 70 miles per hour; New York City had expected the same weather effects but was spared 2014 Event The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) project that Ebola cases could reach between 550,000 and 1.4 million by January if more isn't done to control spread of the disease; infections are doubling about every 3 weeks in Liberia and Sierra Leone 2014 Event Solar storms will reach Earth today and tomorrow, possibly disrupting electric grids and increasing radiation exposure to airline travelers 2014 Event Rory McIlroy wins the PGA Championship, marking his fourth major championship; McIlroy is now one of only four players in golf history to reach this achievement by age 25 2014 Event Iran balks at the terms for peaceful nuclear development suggested by Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States; the nations hope to reach a deal by July 20th; in exchange, sanctions against Iran will be removed 2013 Event NASA's Voyager 1 space probe makes history by advancing past the solar system - becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space 2013 Event Pope Francis condemns the 'global indifference' to the plight of immigrants who have drowned trying to reach Europe; he honors them in a mass held on Lampedusa, the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea 2012 Event Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary-General, urges countries to work together to reach an agreement to control international arms sales; no agreement is reached 2012 Event In an apparent effort to keep his contract, a subcontractor at Japan's defunct Fukushima's nuclear power plant shielded dosimeters with lead plates to ensure they did not reach radiation limits, and workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure 2012 Event Strong manufacturing figures and company earnings cause the Dow Jones Industrial Average to reach a four-year high 2011 Event NBA team owners and players reach an agreement, ending the 149-day NBA lockout; the new NBA season will begin Christmas day 2011 Event Higher than expected consumer price index figures and U.S. default concerns cause the Australian dollar to reach a post-float record against the U.S. dollar 2011 Event April exports for the People's Republic of China reach an all-time monthly hight of $155.69 billion 2011 Event New Zealand honors victims of the 2011 Canterbury earthquake with two minutes of silence; 154 persons died, and the death toll is expected to reach 240 2010 Event Experts believe three Russian satellites that failed to reach orbit after launching from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome have crashed into the Pacific Ocean 2010 Event NATO nations reach an agreement to begin handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghanistan military by 2014 2010 Event For the first time in two years, South Korea and North Korea reach an agreement to hold working-level military talks 2010 Event In a prolonged rally, gold prices reach a record-high price of $1,300/oz 2004 Event American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000 1997 Event Chicago Bull's coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins 1996 Event Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits 1996 Event Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists 1995 Event Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits 1993 Event Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career 1992 Event Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI 1991 Event Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement 1990 Event U.S. forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf 1990 Event New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat) 1990 Event New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs (approx 128 at bat) 1989 Event Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top 1989 Event Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) 1987 Event NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit 1983 Event 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 Event Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut 1982 Event Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year 1980 Event Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400 1978 Event Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone 1977 Event 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska 1975 Event Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans 1975 Event Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit 1973 Event Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army 1971 Event Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole 1968 Event "March of Poor" under Reverend Abernathy reach Washington, D.C. 1967 Event Israeli troops reach Suez Canal 1967 Event ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit 1963 Event Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon 1962 Event 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched 1962 Event Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral 1961 Event Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit 1961 Event Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit 1961 Event Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon 1961 Event Explorer 10 fails to reach Earth orbit 1960 Event 1st United Nations troops reach Congo 1960 Event Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit 1960 Event Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m) 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 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit 1956 Event Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt 1955 Event Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 home runs in a season 1953 Event Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest 1952 Event German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments 1952 Event 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 Event U.N. arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea 1950 Event South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary 1950 Event North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict 1945 Event Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen 1945 Event Soviet army reach Rostock 1945 Event British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands 1945 Event 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa 1945 Event U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa 1945 Event Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1944 Event Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren 1944 Event Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution 1944 Event 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz 1943 Event Soviet forces reach Dnjepr 1943 Event Russian units reach suburbs of Orel 1942 Event 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 Event 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 Event 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta 1942 Event 55 German tanks reach North-Africa 1941 Event Nazi troops reach Lenningrad 1940 Event German tanks reach Atrecht France 1940 Event General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1932 Event Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon 1926 Event France and U.S. reach accord on repayment of WW I 1926 Birthday Lyndon Brook, actor, Invasion, Reach for the Sky 1925 Event Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km 1924 Event Bayern and Vatican reach accord 1919 Event Yankees and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth 1915 Event Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal 1914 Event At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary 1913 Event Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously 1912 Event English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1909 Event A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball 1909 Event David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole 1908 Event 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0 1908 Event Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't 1900 Event Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown 1899 Event British troops reach Durban Natal 1899 Event 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal 1898 Event French troops reach Guinea and Sudan, Samori caught 1898 Event Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan 1894 Event French Captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa 1890 Event Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft. Salisbury) 1890 Event Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria) 1890 Event Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi 1882 Birthday Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole 1866 Birthday Matthew A. Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole, Jun 4 1909 1865 Event General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro North Carolina 1865 Event Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse 1864 Event General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins 1864 Event General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C. 1864 Event Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas 1864 Event Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana 1853 Event Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan 1849 Event Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York 1836 Event HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Saint-Helena 1836 Event HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land, also known as Tasmania, Australia 1836 Event HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Sydney, Australia 1835 Event HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Tahiti 1806 Event English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires 1806 Event Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast 1805 Event Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent 1711 Event Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St. Lawrence 1683 Event Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald 1667 Event Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River 1650 Event Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army 1627 Event English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle 1620 Event Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass 1600 Event Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines 1596 Event English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz 1585 Event English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen 1396 Event Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna 1212 Event Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa 1165 Event Ramjbam and his family reach Acre Palestine 1065 Event Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
