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2013 Event - Microsoft is fined €561 million for not providing E.U. residents with an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer

2001 Death - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer

1997 Event - Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0

1997 Death - Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

1997 Event - Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0

1996 Death - Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90

1996 Event - Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0

1995 Death - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87

1988 Event - Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington

1985 Event - International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km

1985 Event - International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley

1978 Event - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit

1975 Event - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays

1973 Event - NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit

1972 Event - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays

1970 Event - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays

1968 Event - Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (o 450 m)

1968 Event - U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun

1968 Event - Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)

1967 Event - U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)

1966 Event - Explorer 33 launched

1963 Event - Explorer 18 launched

1963 Event - Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)

1963 Death - Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday

1963 Birthday - Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer, South Pole

1962 Death - William Beebe, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 84

1962 Death - Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78

1961 Death - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82

1961 Event - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

1961 Event - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

1961 Event - NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays

1961 Event - Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)

1961 Event - Explorer 10 fails to reach Earth orbit

1961 Event - U.S. satellite Explorer 9 is launched

1960 Death - Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer, dies

1960 Event - Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit

1960 Death - Roy Chapman Andrews, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 76

1959 Event - Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth

1959 Event - Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space

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 - Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV

1958 Event - U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"

1958 Event - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit

1958 Event - 1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched

1958 Event - U.S. launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1

1957 Death - Richard E Byrd, U.S., explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68

1955 Birthday - Ann Bancroft, born in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, author, teacher, adventurer, Arctic and Antarctic explorer, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee

1955 Death - Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies

1955 Death - Matthew Henson, American Explorer

1951 Death - Lincoln Ellsworth, artic explorer, dies at 71

1948 Birthday - Boyd Matson, TV host/correspondent, National Geographic Explorer

1944 Birthday - Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist

1944 Birthday - Ranulph Fiennes, British Explorer

1942 Death - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79

1942 Birthday - Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer, Titanic in 1985

1940 Birthday - Timothy Severin, author/explorer

1940 Death - Frederick A Cook, U.S., explorer (North Pole), dies at 75

1940 Death - Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer

1937 Death - William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81

1935 Event - Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD

1934 Event - U.S. explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere

1934 Death - Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier and explorer in Sudan, dies at 70

1933 Death - Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54

1933 Death - Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60

1929 Death - Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China), dies

1928 Death - Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies

1928 Death - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Explorer

1928 Death - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, dies at 57

1927 Death - Harry Johnston, British Explorer

1924 Death - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65

1922 Birthday - Jacques Piccard, born in Switzerland, undersea explorer, bathyscaph Trieste

1922 Death - John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89

1922 Death - Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47

1922 Death - Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer

1921 Death - Bat Masterson, American Explorer

1920 Death - Hudson Stuck, English Explorer

1920 Death - Robert E Peary, U.S. pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63

1919 Birthday - Edmund Hillary, born in Auckland, New Zealand, mountaineer, explorer, first climber to summit Mount Everest

1916 Death - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58

1914 Birthday - Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer, Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku

1914 Birthday - Tenzing Norgay, Explorer

1912 Death - Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies

1912 Death - L Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies

1912 Death - Edgar Evans, British explorer of Antarctica, dies

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

1911 Birthday - Lord Shackelton, explorer/government minister

1910 Birthday - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer, Calypso

1910 Birthday - Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

1910 Birthday - Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer

1910 Death - Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37

1909 Event - British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole

1908 Death - Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer

1908 Birthday - Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer

1908 Birthday - Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer, British Antarctic Survey

1907 Birthday - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, La civilisation du phoque

1906 Birthday - Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist

1905 Death - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies

1905 Death - Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51

1905 Death - Hermann von Wissmann, German African explorer and Governor East-Africa, dies

1904 Death - Henry M Stanley, John Rowlands, British explorer, dies

1904 Death - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer

1903 Birthday - Ella Maillart, explorer

1901 Death - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86

1901 Death - Nils Adolf Erik, Baron Nordenskjold, geologist/explorer, dies

1899 Birthday - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer

1897 Death - Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87

1896 Death - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies

1894 Death - Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49

1893 Death - Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72

1893 Death - Antoine T d'abbadie, French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78

1892 Death - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52

1892 Death - Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies

1890 Death - John C "Pathfinder" Fremont, U.S. explorer/governor (Ariz), dies at 76

1888 Birthday - George Hubert Wilkins, born in Australia, polar explorer, Flying the Arctic

1888 Birthday - Richard E. Byrd, American Explorer

1885 Birthday - Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer

1884 Birthday - Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer

1884 Birthday - Auguste Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist and explorer, balloonist

1884 Birthday - Jean Felix Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist, explorer, and balloonist

1884 Birthday - Roy Chapman Andrews, U.S., scientist/explorer

1883 Death - Olivier Gloux, Gustave Aimard, French world explorer, dies at 64

1882 Death - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35

1882 Birthday - Philips C. Visser, Dutch explorer/diplomat

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

1879 Birthday - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist

1879 Birthday - Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer, Thule

1878 Death - George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81

1877 Death - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo

1874 Birthday - Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer, Endurance, Antarctica

1874 Birthday - Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer

1873 Death - David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60

1873 Birthday - Luigi A, duke of the Abruzzes, Italy, explorer/climber, Mount St. Elias

1873 Birthday - Boyd Alexander, English explorer

1872 Birthday - Roald Amundsen, born in Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole

1871 Birthday - Russell W. Porter, Vermont, explorer, Alaska

1870 Birthday - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, Greenland

1869 Death - Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+

1869 Birthday - David Grandison Fairchild, U.S., botanist and explorer, brought plants to U.S.

1866 Birthday - Matthew Henson, American Explorer

1865 Birthday - Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat, China

1865 Birthday - Frederick A. Cook, U.S., explorer, claimed falsely to be at North Pole

1865 Birthday - Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer

1865 Birthday - Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer, Tibet

1863 Birthday - Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier and explorer, Sudan

1863 Birthday - Hudson Stuck, English Explorer

1863 Birthday - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer

1862 Death - Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies

1862 Death - James Clark Ross, Arctic explorer, dies

1861 Birthday - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian, Nobel 1922

1859 Event - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone

1859 Death - Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies

1858 Birthday - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit

1858 Birthday - Harry Johnston, British Explorer

1857 Death - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77

1857 Death - Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37

1856 Birthday - Robert Edwin Peary, U.S., arctic explorer, North Pole-Apr 6 1909

1856 Birthday - William M. Conway, English historian and explorer, Spitzbergen

1854 Birthday - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer

1853 Birthday - Bat Masterson, American Explorer

1853 Birthday - Hermann von Wissmann, German Africa explorer/governor East-Africa

1852 Death - Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59

1852 Birthday - Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator, French Africa

1850 Birthday - Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat

1850 Event - Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia

1849 Birthday - John Godden, English explorer, Curacao

1847 Birthday - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, South America

1844 Birthday - Verney L. Cameroon, English explorer, Tanganyika

1844 Birthday - Alophus Washington Greely, U.S., Arctic explorer

1841 Birthday - George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer

1841 Birthday - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer

1841 Birthday - Henry Stanley, England, journalist/explorer, found Livingston in Africa

1840 Birthday - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer/governor, Equatoria

1839 Birthday - Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia, OS

1834 Birthday - John Wesley Powell, U.S., geologist/explorer/ethnologist

1833 Birthday - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer

1832 Birthday - John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone

1832 Birthday - Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, Sweden, Arctic explorer

1831 Birthday - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia

1829 Birthday - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer, Tarimbekken

1821 Birthday - Samuel White Baker, born in London, England, explorer, Ceylon/Egypt

1821 Birthday - Richard Burton, explorer/translator, Arabian Nights

1821 Birthday - Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer, Central Africa

1820 Birthday - Elisha Kent Kane, U.S. Arctic explorer, Kane Basin off NW Greenland

1818 Birthday - Olivier Gloux, Aimard, French world explorer/writer, Grande Flibuste

1815 Birthday - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor, Jamaica

1813 Death - Zebulon M Pike, U.S. explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34

1813 Birthday - David Livingstone, born in Scotland, explorer, found by Stanley in Africa

1813 Birthday - John C Fremont, Pathfinder, map maker/explorer, western U.S., Gov, AZ

1806 Event - Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)

1800 Birthday - James Clark Ross, explorer, British Antarctic

1799 Birthday - Rene-Auguste Caillie, French explorer

1799 Birthday - Jedediah Strong Smith, U.S. fur trader/explorer

1798 Death - George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40

1796 Birthday - George Back, English sea officer/explorer, North Canada

1795 Birthday - Charles Sturt, England, explorer, Australia

1790 Birthday - William Parry, England, Arctic explorer

1790 Birthday - Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville, explorer

1788 Birthday - Hugh Clapperton, Annan Scotland, African explorer

1787 Birthday - James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer, Weddell Sea

1786 Birthday - John Franklin, British explorer, Arctic

1779 Death - James Cook, explorer, murdered by natives in Hawaii

1779 Death - James Cook, Scottish explorer, killed in fracas with Hawaiian

1779 Birthday - Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer, Pike's Peak

1778 Death - Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70

1772 Event - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago

1771 Birthday - Mungo Park, Scotish explorer, Africa

1770 Birthday - David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer, Columbia River

1763 Death - Pehr Forskahl, Finnish botanist/explorer, dies

1741 Death - Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies

1741 Event - Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering

1734 Birthday - Daniel Boone, frontiersman/explorer, U.S. Hall of Fame-1915

1728 Birthday - James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands

1728 Birthday - Samuel Wallis, explorer, Wallis Island

1725 Birthday - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India

1702 Death - Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies

1699 Birthday - John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany

1697 Birthday - George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer

1687 Death - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, French explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43

1652 Birthday - William Dampier, English explorer/pirate

1643 Birthday - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer, Louisiana

1643 Birthday - Rene R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer

1622 Death - William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38

1620 Death - William Adams, English Explorer

1616 Death - Jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31

1597 Death - Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies

1596 Event - At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya

1594 Death - Martin Frobisher, English Vice-Admiral/explorer, dies

1575 Birthday - Henry Hudson, England, navigator/explorer, Hudson River

1567 Birthday - Samuel de Champlain, explorer, Lake Champlain

1564 Birthday - William Adams, English Explorer

1559 Event - Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla

1557 Death - Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)

1557 Death - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65

1542 Event - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast

1541 Death - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima

1540 Event - Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River

1539 Event - Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida

1526 Death - Juan Sebasti n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies

1524 Death - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55

1519 Birthday - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer, found St. Augustine Florida

1513 Event - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain

1513 Death - Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish explorer (Curaeao and Bonaire), dies

1512 Death - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60

1506 Death - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55

1501 Event - Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon

1500 Death - Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns

1498 Event - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India

1454 Birthday - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, America

1324 Death - Marco Polo, Venetian explorer and Governor of Nanking, dies

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