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2004 American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000
1997 Chicago Bull's coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins 1996 Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits 1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists 1995 Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits 1993 Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career 1992 Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI 1991 Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement 1990 U.S. forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat) 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs (approx 128 at bat) 1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top 1989 Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) 1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit 1983 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 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut 1982 Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year 1980 Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400 1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone 1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska 1975 Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans 1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit 1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole 1968 "March of Poor" under Reverend Abernathy reach Washington, D.C. 1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal 1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit 1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon 1962 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched 1962 Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral 1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit 1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon 1961 Explorer 10 fails to reach Earth orbit 1960 1st United Nations troops reach Congo 1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit 1960 Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m) 1958 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 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit 1956 Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt 1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 home runs in a season 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest 1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments 1952 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 U.N. arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea 1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary 1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict 1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen 1945 Soviet army reach Rostock 1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands 1945 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa 1945 U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1944 Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren 1944 Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution 1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz 1943 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr 1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta 1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa 1941 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad 1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France 1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1932 Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon 1926 France and U.S. reach accord on repayment of WW I 1926 Lyndon Brook, actor, Invasion, Reach for the Sky 1925 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km 1924 Bayern and Vatican reach accord 1919 Yankees and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth 1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal 1914 At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary 1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball 1909 David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole 1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0 1908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't 1900 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown 1899 British troops reach Durban Natal 1899 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal 1898 French troops reach Guinea and Sudan, Samori caught 1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan 1894 French Captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft. Salisbury) 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria) 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi 1882 Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole 1866 Matthew A. Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole, Jun 4 1909 1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro North Carolina 1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse 1864 General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins 1864 General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C. 1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas 1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan 1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York 1836 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Saint-Helena 1836 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land, also known as Tasmania, Australia 1836 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Sydney, Australia 1835 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Tahiti 1806 English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires 1806 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast 1805 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent 1805 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean 1711 Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St. Lawrence 1683 Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald 1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River 1650 Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army 1627 English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle 1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass 1600 Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines 1596 English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz 1585 English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen 1396 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna 1212 Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa 1165 Ramjbam and his family reach Acre Palestine 1065 Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem |
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