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2013 Event - The air pollution in Beijing reaches levels deemed hazardous to human health

2012 Event - The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike

2012 Event - The Mega Millions jackpot in the U.S. reaches a world record in lottery history - $500 million dollars

2011 Event - The death toll from Tropical Storm Washi in the Philippines reaches 1,002, and is expected to rise

2011 Event - The price of gold reaches a new record after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announces plans to nationalize his country's gold industry

2011 Event - As the Australian dollar reaches new 29-year highs against the U.S. dollar, rising interest rates are predicted

2011 Event - One hour before the deadline, the U.S. Congress reaches a deal on the 2011 U.S. federal budget, avoiding a government shutdown

2011 Event - Bolstered by strong employment figures for March, the Australian dollar reaches a 28-year high against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - In China, the yuan reaches a record level against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - The moon appears 30% brighter and 14% larger than at its furthest point; it reaches its closest point to Earth since 1993

2011 Event - Inflation in the People's Republic of China reaches 4.9%

2010 Event - The internet population in China reaches 450 million

2010 Event - China's inflation rate reaches 5.1%, a 28-month high

2010 Event - The Australian dollar reaches the highest level in 27 years against the U.S. dollar

2010 Event - Wild celebrations occur as a drill reaches an underground chamber with 33-trapped Chilean miners inside

2010 Event - A drill reaches 33 Chilean miners who remain trapped underground after the 2010 Copiapo mining accident August 5, 2010

2010 Event - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill reaches the Louisiana Coast; weather is projected to impede cleanup efforts

2009 Event - Internet traffic reaches unprecedented levels after entertainer Michael Jackson's death triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief

2008 Event - Oil reaches $100 per barrel for the first time

2006 Event - United States population reaches 300 million people

1997 Event - Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH

1997 Event - 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole

1997 Event - White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time

1997 Event - O. J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages

1994 Event - Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000

1994 Event - Borge Ousland reaches North pole

1993 Event - Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86

1993 Event - Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points

1993 Event - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th

1990 Event - John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row

1989 Event - France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph

1987 Event - Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42

1986 Event - Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole

1986 Event - Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)

1983 Event - Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car

1982 Event - U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982

1982 Event - Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico

1980 Event - Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce

1979 Event - Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph

1979 Event - Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time

1975 Event - Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1

1973 Event - Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter

1971 Event - Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times

1970 Event - NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)

1970 Event - "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1

1969 Event - Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1

1969 Event - Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1

1969 Event - Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris

1968 Event - William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)

1968 Event - Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London

1967 Event - U.S. population reaches 200 million

1967 Event - Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km

1967 Event - Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km

1967 Event - Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1

1966 Event - Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon

1966 Event - William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km

1966 Event - Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1

1965 Event - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km

1965 Event - Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km

1965 Event - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km

1965 Event - USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15

1965 Event - Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1

1964 Event - Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)

1964 Event - Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1

1964 Event - Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1

1963 Event - 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km

1963 Event - NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)

1963 Event - NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km

1963 Event - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m

1963 Birthday - Joel Osteen, born in Houston, Texas, pastor, Lakewood Church, ministry reaches over seven million viewers per week in the U.S., author of 'Your Best Life Now'

1963 Event - Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon

1961 Event - U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back

1961 Event - Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km

1960 Event - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight

1960 Event - Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1

1960 Event - Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1

1960 Event - Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km

1959 Event - USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter

1958 Event - "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1

1958 Event - U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back

1958 Event - 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back

1958 Event - Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record)

1958 Event - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km

1958 Event - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1

1958 Event - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland

1957 Event - Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1

1957 Event - Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1

1957 Event - "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1

1957 Event - "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1

1957 Event - U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon

1957 Event - David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon

1957 Event - Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km

1956 Death - Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash

1956 Event - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1

1954 Event - PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting

1953 Event - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane

1953 Event - Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m

1951 Event - Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph

1951 Event - U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record

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

1949 Event - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000

1948 Event - U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)

1946 Event - U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

1945 Event - U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb

1945 Event - 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa

1945 Event - U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border

1944 Event - U.S. 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall

1944 Event - Tito reaches free Belgrade

1944 Event - France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame

1944 Event - U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes

1944 Event - U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris

1944 Event - U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux

1944 Event - U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres

1944 Event - U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany

1944 Event - British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy

1944 Event - U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy

1944 Event - 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line

1943 Event - 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp

1943 Event - 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau

1943 Event - British militia reaches Tito

1943 Event - Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa

1942 Event - British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter

1942 Event - U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea

1942 Event - Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo

1942 Event - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus

1941 Event - British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk

1941 Event - Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4

1941 Event - Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR

1939 Event - British Expeditionary Force reaches France

1939 Event - Nazi army reaches Warsaw

1939 Event - General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw

1935 Event - Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi

1933 Event - Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record)

1928 Event - Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car

1924 Event - 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java)

1923 Event - Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917

1921 Event - Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot

1920 Event - Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce

1914 Event - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany

1914 Event - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow

1912 Event - Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship

1909 Event - Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south

1905 Event - Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville

1899 Event - British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

1899 Event - 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa

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

1896 Event - Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa

1895 Event - French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar

1894 Event - Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki

1891 Event - Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria

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

1886 Event - 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC

1885 Event - News of fall of Khartoum reaches London

1883 Event - French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger

1882 Event - British General Wolseley reaches Cairo

1879 Event - News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London

1877 Event - Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa

1877 Event - Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo

1876 Event - Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River

1875 Event - Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa

1875 Event - Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast

1871 Event - Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa

1860 Event - 1st railroad reaches Kansas

1860 Event - 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California

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

1836 Event - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands

1836 Event - HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia

1835 Event - Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile

1835 Event - Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes

1834 Event - Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana, Chile

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

1833 Event - Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay

1833 Event - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana

1833 Event - Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero, Argentina

1833 Event - HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina

1833 Event - HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro

1833 Event - Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland

1832 Event - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands

1832 Event - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro

1831 Event - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole

1827 Event - Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge

1823 Event - English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole

1812 Event - French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow

1809 Event - Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chasse reaches Madrid

1808 Event - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak

1804 Event - British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao

1798 Event - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt

1789 Event - Captain William Blighs reaches Timor

1787 Event - Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc

1783 Event - 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude

1778 Event - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits

1774 Event - Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)

1745 Event - Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby

1745 Event - French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland

1745 Event - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland

1745 Event - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland

1741 Event - English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena

1720 Event - "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000

1709 Event - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC

1694 Event - English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest

1660 Event - General Moncks army reaches London

1630 Event - Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil

1627 Event - English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle

1624 Event - Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru

1620 Event - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast

1608 Event - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague

1604 Event - Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam

1598 Event - Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java

1597 Event - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java

1596 Event - Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java

1590 Event - Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda

1566 Event - Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam

1566 Event - Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium

1565 Event - King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels

1535 Event - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)

1534 Event - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland

1521 Event - Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu

1521 Event - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines

1517 Event - Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay

1396 Event - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis

1165 Event - Rambam reaches Jerusalem













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