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6 April 1909: First man reached the North Pole - top of the world

On 6 April 1909, a team of explorers led by Admiral Robert Edwin Peary became the first people to document a visit to the geographic North Pole.

(The honour of being first at the pole might more properly belong to the American explorer and physician Frederick A. Cook, who claimed to have reached the pole a year earlier on 21 April 1908. However he had no sufficient proof that he did.)

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Where is the North Pole?

The North Pole is the northernmost point on Earth, lying diametrically opposite the South Pole. It is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amidst waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice.

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6 April 1874: Houdini was born in Hungary. He was a famous magician known for his escape acts.

 

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