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2013 Event - The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station

2012 Event - Russian spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-07M, is launched in Kazakhstan, with cosmonauts Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Thomas Marshburn for the ISS Expedition 34 and 35 crews

2012 Event - Expedition 33 ends and Expedition 34 begins as astronauts Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams, and Akihiko Hoshide return to Earth with spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M

2010 Event - A new, though threatened, language known as Koro, is discovered by a team of linguists on an expedition to Arunachal Pradesh, in northeastern India

1986 Event - Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole

1985 Event - U.S. - French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland

1971 Event - Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours

1970 Event - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I

1969 Event - Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice

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

1950 Event - French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal

1930 Event - Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen

1915 Event - British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle

1914 Event - 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"

1912 Event - English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before

1912 Event - Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

1911 Event - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1908 Event - Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole

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

1894 Event - Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki

1894 Event - Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger

1890 Event - Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda

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

1882 Event - Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition

1882 Birthday - Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole

1876 Event - Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition and natives

1876 Event - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe

1876 Event - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda

1871 Event - Journalist Henry M. Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa

1870 Death - Patrick Gass, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 98

1868 Birthday - Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition

1864 Event - Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg)

1864 Event - Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)

1864 Event - Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)

1864 Event - Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition)

1863 Event - Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass

1862 Event - Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition

1853 Event - Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance

1840 Event - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim)

1839 Death - Nathaniel Pryor, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies

1838 Death - William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 68

1838 Event - 1st U.S. marine expedition

1838 Event - Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails

1834 Event - Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle

1834 Event - Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz

1834 Event - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean

1834 Event - Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia

1809 Death - Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis and Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35

1804 Death - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

1804 Event - Lewis and Clark Expedition begins

1786 Event - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in U.S.

1781 Event - British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va

1774 Birthday - Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville, Virginia, captain, Lewis and Clark Expedition

1771 Birthday - Patrick Gass, Falling Springs, Pennsylvania, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition

1770 Birthday - William Clark, born in Charlottsville, Virginia, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition

1665 Event - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers

1625 Event - Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)

1524 Event - Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia

1522 Event - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan

1493 Event - Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World

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