1492 – Christopher Colombus reputed to be the first European from a major power to land in the Americas (now the Bahamas). tho there is evidence that the Vikings did it in the 10th Century. 1773 – Captain James Cook – becomes the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle. That I did not know. 1911 – 14 December – Roald Amundsen (Norway) first person to reach the South Pole. Amundsen and his team at the South Pole
In 1927, air mail pilot Charles Lindbergh (pictured) went from obscurity to instant American hero by making the world's first solo, nonstop flite across the Atlantic in his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis..
Inspired no doubt by Lindbergh, Australian Charles Kingsford Smith became the first aviator to tame the Pacific a year later. Together with good friend and future business partner Charles Ulm he took off from Oakland, California on May 31, 1928 in his Southern Cross and reached Australia.. taking only 8 days to make the 7,000mile flite... Also on the historical trip and of undoubted assistance in the massive feat were two Americans.. Harry Lyon, navigator, and radioman J. Warner. "Smithy" with his Southern Cross.
I have one to top that. World's first floating hotel in Tasmania, Australia. An artist’s impression of the floating hotel. To be based on the vast Derwent River the proposed five-storey ring-shaped hotel would become not only a tourist attraction and a viable alternative to high-rise hotel developments in Hobart, but its pioneering technology could give birth to a new industry not only in Tasmania but Australia.. and the world.
1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary, with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay, become the first men to climb Mt. Everest. 1783 – Nov. 21. – Marquis d’Arlandes and Pilatre de Rozier become the first humans to fly in a hot-air balloon for 20 minutes, in Paris.