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A curmudgeon looks at the world
06 April 2016
History for the day: 1909: North Pole reached
On 6 April 1909, the explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson (who was black) became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.
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