Hate to tell you this, but Richard Evelyn Byrd arrived at Antarctica some 17 years after Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole. Byrd's first expedition to the South Pole happened in 1928, Amundsen had beaten Scott to the Pole in 1911.
As Far as I know the Ancient Egyptians used them first
January-June· April 10 - Charles V, Duke of Lorraine is appointed commander of the Imperial army.· May 3 - Sultan Mehmed IV enters Belgrade.· June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum.· June 12 - The Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England is discovered.July-December· July 8 - The Qing dynasty Chinese admiral Shi Lang leads 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian and sails towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and Penghu, in order to quell the kingdom in the name of Qing.· July 14 - A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna and starts to besiege the city.· July 16 and July 17- Battle of Penghu: Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang defeats the naval forces of Zheng Keshuang in a decisive victory.· September 5 - The Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which is then incorporated into the Qing Empire.· September 12 - Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70,000 Poles, Austriansand Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank (considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes). [1]· October 3 - Shi Lang reaches Taiwan and occupies present day Kaohsiung.· October 6 - Germantown, Philadelphia is founded as the first permanent German settlement in North America (in 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it becomes an annual holiday, German-American Day).· November 1 - The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.· December - The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held.Date unknown· Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain.
the child is the first scientist
it means to do the things you need to do first then you can do the fun things next
The theme of Admiral Byrd's autograph was Antarctic exploration.
Admiral Bryd was an American explorer
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Admiral Richard E. Byrd was born on October 25, 1888.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd was born on October 25, 1888.
Admiral Byrd died at his house in Boston at the age 68. He died of heart ailment.
Admiral Byrd named his bases Little America.
Calvin Coolidge.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd died on March 11, 1957 at the age of 68.
Admiral Byrd
Because he was a admiral
Biography - 1961 Admiral Richard E- Byrd was released on: USA: 1962