History Hop Tags - Reach

1000-10-09

Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America

1065-04-12

Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem

1165-05-16

Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine

1396-06-24

Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna

1497-07-08

Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs for on his first voyage - becomes first European to reach India by sea

1497-11-22

Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India

1498-05-20

Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India - first European to reach India by sea

1520-10-21

Exploer Ferdinand Magellen and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean

1585-12-20

English fleet & Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, reach Vlissingen

1596-06-30

English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz

1600-10-16

Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines

1620-11-21

Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass

1627-07-10

English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20]

1650-08-03

Viceroy Willem II & Amsterdam reach accord about standing army

1667-02-25

Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River

1683-09-09

Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald

1711-08-23

Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence

1767-06-18

Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

1783-05-18

First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.

1802-01-06

Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reach Quito, Ecuador

1805-11-19

Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross continent

1806-06-24

British under Commodore Popham and Colonel Beresford reach Buenos Aires

1836-01-12

HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia

1836-02-06

HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

1836-03-06

HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach King George's Sound, Australia

1840-01-22

British colonists reach New Zealand.

1848-04-03

German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River

1849-07-28

Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY

1864-03-15

Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA

1864-03-29

Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas

1864-07-02

Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington, DC

1864-12-10

General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins

1865-01-23

-Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)

1865-02-03

Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse

1865-03-23

General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC

1879-09-05

George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer, and commander on board the Jeannette, becomes trapped with his crew in pack ice during his attempt to reach the North Pole

1890-08-01

Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi

1890-08-14

Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)

1890-09-12

Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland and found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe).

1894-11-16

French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa

1898-09-18

Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan

1898-09-29

French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught

1899-10-13

7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal

1899-11-12

British troops reach Durban Natal

1900-01-10

Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown

1908-04-21

Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)

1908-11-22

1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0

1909-01-16

British explorers David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole as part of the Nimrod Expedition

1909-03-18

Russia and Bulgaria reach an agreement in which late 19th century Russian financial claims are cancelled to meet compensation due to Turkey from Bulgaria

1909-08-31

A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball

1913-03-26

Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously

1914-08-10

At Liege, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary

1915-02-03

Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal

1917-07-27

The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.

1919-12-26

Yankees & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth the Yankees

1924-03-29

Bayern & Vatican reach accord

1925-02-02

Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km

1926-04-29

France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I

1932-08-18

Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon

1940-05-20

German General Guderian's tanks reach the English Channel (British expeditionary army)

1940-05-24

German tanks reach Atrecht France

1941-08-22

Nazi troops reach Lenningrad

1942-01-05

55 German tanks reach North-Africa

1942-03-07

15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta

1942-03-25

700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp

1942-03-26

1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec

1943-08-04

Russian units reach suburbs of Orel

1943-09-21

Soviet forces reach Dnjepr

1944-05-16

1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

1944-06-03

Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution

1944-11-05

Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren

1945-01-26

Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp

1945-01-31

Russian troops reach the Oder River, less that 50 miles from Berlin

1945-03-24

US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa

1945-04-02

1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa

1945-04-25

British troops reach Grebbe line Neth

1945-05-02

Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen

1946-05-22

First US rocket (WAC Corporal) to reach edge of space fired from White Sands Missile Range New Mexico

1947-08-07

Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow adventurers aboard the Kon-Tiki reach the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean

1950-06-27

North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict

1950-10-26

South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary

1951-06-13

UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea

1952-05-05

Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base

1952-08-28

German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments

1953-05-29

Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition

1955-09-20

Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season

1956-11-04

Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt

1958-03-05

Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit

1958-09-14

Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.

1960-01-23

Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)

1960-03-23

Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit

1960-07-18

1st UN troops reach Congo

1961-02-24

Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit

1961-05-04

Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon

1961-05-24

Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

1961-05-25

President Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon

1961-06-30

Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

1962-04-23

1st US satellite to reach the moon launched

1962-04-23

Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral

1962-07-15

Netherlands & Indonesia reach agreement over New Guinea

1963-01-04

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

1967-04-05

ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit

1967-06-09

Israeli troops reach Suez Canal

1968-05-12

"March of Poor" under Rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC

1971-04-05

Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole

1973-02-28

Iraq and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) reach an agreement on compensation for nationalization

1973-10-26

Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army

1975-05-16

Junko Tabei from Japan becomes 1st woman to reach summit of Mt Everest

1975-08-03

Poland & West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans

1976-11-23

Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.

1977-07-28

1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska

1978-05-01

Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone

1980-08-18

KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400

1982-06-01

Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year

1982-06-10

Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut

1983-07-27

Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal

1986-04-26

World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, contamination reach much of Western Europe

1987-03-26

NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit

1989-01-17

Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)

1989-05-20

Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top

1990-06-22

Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach

1990-08-19

NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)

1990-08-20

NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)

1990-10-16

US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf

1991-04-08

Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement

1992-09-24

Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI

1993-09-12

Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career

1995-06-30

Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits

1996-03-07

Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists

1996-09-16

Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits

1997-09-12

The UN passes a resolution allowing Iraq to reach the $2.14 billion oil sales limit under its oil-for-food program

1997-09-12

The UN passes a resolution allowing Iraq to reach the $2.14 billion oil sales limit under its oil-for-food program

1997-12-11

Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a United Nations climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement on a protocol to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases; the protocol commita nations to roll back greenhouse gase emissions below 1990 levels

1997-12-23

Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games)

1998-10-23

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.

1999-07-15

Scientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah's disappearance 100 years later; The SS Waratah was a luxury steamer which did not reach its destination in 1909, and no trace of the wreckage was ever found

2000-09-19

Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run. The first major leaguer to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter

2001-05-25

32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

2007-01-07

Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach, becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins

2009-03-04

Malaysia has a 50% chance of slipping into the recession as growth is expected to reach just 0.5% for the year, announces the executive director Datuk Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research

2012-09-18

The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.

2012-12-21

"Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube

2013-01-20

The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens win the NFC and AFC championship games to reach Super Bowl XLVII

2013-09-20

Grand Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment product to reach $1 Billion in sales

2014-01-19

Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks win their playoff matches to reach Super Bowl XLVIII

2014-05-31

Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube

2015-12-28

South Korea and Japan reach deal on 'comfort women'

2016-03-10

Five Afghans, including baby, drown trying to reach Greece from Turkey

2016-06-23

Kim Jong-un says North Korea missiles can reach US in Pacific

2016-09-10

Russia, US reach cease-fire deal for Syria

2017-01-23

Falcons beat Packers to reach Super Bowl

2017-03-08

Dirk Nowitzki Becomes First International Player to Reach 30000 points in NBA

2017-10-20

Dodgers beat Cubs in Game Five to reach World Series

2017-10-22

Astros reach World Series, top Yankees 4-0 in Game 7 of ALCS

2017-11-29

North Korea says successfully launches new ICBM that can reach all of US

1866-08-08

Matthew A Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole (Jun 4 1909)

1920-11-02

Bill Mazer, Reach for the Stars

1921-06-27

Muriel Pavlow, Reach for the Sky

1925-04-24

John Reach, The Silencers

1926-04-01

Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)

1926-04-10

Lyndon Brook, Reach for the Sky

1929-05-23

Chet Gould, Reach for the Stars

1931-03-20

John Rae, Reach for Glory

1934-10-24

Ron Landry, Reach for the Sky

1938-03-02

Lawrence Payton, The Four Tops: Reach Out - Definitive Performances 1965-1973

1946-07-23

Freddy Eldrett, Reach for Glory

1950-11-03

James Rothman, Haverhill Massachusetts, American Biochemist and Nobel Laureate who discovered how vesicles, sac-like structures that transport hormones and growth factors, reach their destination in cells and know where and when to release their contents

1957-02-16

Bogdan Szczesiak, Out of Reach

1967-02-10

Jennifer Lamar, Just Out of Reach

1968-08-16

Tom Abernathy, Halo: Reach

1972-9-21

Jon Kitna, DPL w/ Special Guests Former Dallas Cowboys Jon Kitna and "Beyond the Reach" Star Michael Douglas

1975-10-20

Sunil Malhotra, Halo: Reach

1977-06-25

Rob Clarke, Out of Reach

1977-08-18

Till Kraemer, Reach for the Stars

1979-07-27

Andy Howell, Halo: Reach

1985-06-07

Sorina Ioana Diaconu, The Third Way to Reach Remote Tribes

1990-12-07

Ida Nowakowska, Out of Reach

1994-08-02

Brian J. Davis, Reach for You

1994-08-06

Alec Dungo, Alec and Joj & Jai Reach for Their Golden Dreams

1994-04-15

John Reach, The Silencers

1997-06-10

Lawrence Payton, The Four Tops: Reach Out - Definitive Performances 1965-1973

2002-09-16

Ron Landry, Reach for the Sky

2003-10-30

Freddy Eldrett, Reach for Glory

2004-01-09

Lyndon Brook, Reach for the Sky

2006-12-16

John Rae, Reach for Glory

2011-07-15

Chet Gould, Reach for the Stars

2013-10-23

Bill Mazer, Reach for the Stars