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2009 Internet traffic reaches unprecedented levels after entertainer Michael Jackson's death triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief
2008 Oil reaches $100 per barrel for the first time 2006 United States population reaches 300 million people 1997 Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole 1997 White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time 1997 O. J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages 1994 Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 1994 Borge Ousland reaches North pole 1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86 1993 Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points 1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th 1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row 1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph 1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42 1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole 1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) 1983 Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car 1982 U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982 1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico 1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce 1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph 1979 Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time 1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 1973 Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter 1971 Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times 1970 NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) 1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 1969 Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1 1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris 1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight) 1968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London 1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 1967 U.S. population reaches 200 million 1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km 1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km 1967 Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon 1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km 1966 Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km 1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km 1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km 1965 USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15 1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1964 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1 1964 Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1 1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km 1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) 1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km 1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m 1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon 1961 U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back 1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight 1960 Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1 1960 Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km 1959 USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter 1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 1958 U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back 1958 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back 1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record) 1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland 1957 Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1 1957 Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1 1957 "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1 1957 "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 1957 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon 1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon 1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km 1956 Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash 1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1 1954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting 1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane 1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m 1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph 1951 U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record 1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal 1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000 1948 U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) 1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM 1945 U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb 1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa 1945 U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border 1944 U.S. 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall 1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade 1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame 1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes 1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris 1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux 1944 U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres 1944 U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany 1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy 1944 U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line 1943 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp 1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 British militia reaches Tito 1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa 1942 British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea 1942 Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo 1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus 1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk 1941 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 Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR 1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France 1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw 1939 General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw 1935 Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi 1933 Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record) 1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car 1924 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java) 1923 Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917 1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany 1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow 1912 Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship 1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south 1905 Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville 1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1899 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo 1897 Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island 1897 Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia 1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki 1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria 1889 Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean 1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa 1887 Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo 1887 Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo 1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC 1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London 1883 French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger 1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London 1877 Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa 1877 Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo 1876 Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River 1875 Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa 1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast 1871 Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa 1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas 1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California 1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia 1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands 1836 HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia 1835 Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile 1835 Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes 1834 Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana, Chile 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay 1833 Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero, Argentina 1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina 1833 HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland 1832 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands 1832 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro 1831 Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole 1827 Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge 1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole 1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow 1809 Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chasse reaches Madrid 1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak 1804 British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao 1798 Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt 1789 Captain William Blighs reaches Timor 1787 Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc 1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude 1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits 1774 Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby 1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena 1720 "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000 1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 1694 English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest 1660 General Moncks army reaches London 1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil 1627 English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle 1624 Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru 1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast 1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague 1604 Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam 1598 Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java 1597 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java 1596 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda 1566 Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam 1566 Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium 1565 King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels 1535 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) 1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland 1521 Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu 1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines 1517 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay 1396 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis 1165 Rambam reaches Jerusalem |
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