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14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

14th December 2025
Tagged as: Amundsen, Antarctica, Discovery, Exploration, Norway, Norwegian, Robert Scott, South Pole

Amundsen’s team arrived five weeks ahead of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition.

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29th November 1929: Richard E. Byrd completes the first flight over the South Pole

29th November 2023
Tagged as: Aircraft, America, Antarctica, Exploration, South Pole, United States, USA

The four-man crew boarded a Ford Trimotor airplane, and at 1am on 29 November reached the South Pole where they flew beyond and to the left and right in case of any navigational errors.

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14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

29th November 1929: Richard E. Byrd completes the first flight over the South Pole

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th October 1927: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, the first major “talkie” movie, premieres in New York City

5th October 1962: James Bond and The Beatles each make their debut with Dr. No and Love Me Do

4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar

3rd October 1952: Britain conducts Operation Hurricane, its first test of an atomic bomb

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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