🎂 Explorer Roald Amundsen is born (1872)
Where: Borge, Norway
📅 On This Day: July 16
July 16, 1872: Explorer Roald Amundsen is born. On 16 July 1872, Roald Amundsen was born in Borge, Norway. In 1911 he led the first expedition ever to reach the South Pole. His ship Fram, which carried him south, stands in the Fram Museum in Oslo, and visitors can step inside it.
✨ More events on this day
- 1910 💡 John Duigan flew his Duigan pusher biplane in 1910, the first aircraft ever built in Australia, which he built himself.
- 1969 🚀 Apollo 11 blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 1969, carrying the three astronauts who would make the first Moon landing. Kennedy Space Center →
- 1994 🚀 In 1994 pieces of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began smashing into Jupiter, leaving dark spots bigger than Earth that telescopes could see for weeks.
🧠 Question of the day
Where did Amundsen's team arrive first?
- The Moon
- The South Pole
- The top of Everest
Show the answer
Answer: The South Pole
🐾 World day: World Snake Day
Snakes smell the air with their tongues, and by eating rats they help farmers.
Questions
What happened on July 16?
July 16, 1872: Explorer Roald Amundsen is born. It happened in Borge, Norway.
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