After a two-month ordeal, the expedition of British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find
that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded
them by just over a month. Disappointed, the exhausted
explorers prepared for a long and difficult journey back to
their base camp.

Weather on the return journey was exceptionally bad, two
members perished and Scott and the other two survivors
were trapped in their tent by a storm only 11 miles from
their base camp. Scott wrote a final entry in his diary in
late March. A search party discovered their frozen bodies
eight months later. In his final journal entry, Scott wrote,
"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker,
of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but
I do not think I can write more…For God’s sake look after
our people."

        
 
Edward Adrian Wilson, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence
Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers and Edgar Evans at
the South Pole.

An expedition through an Indonesian mountain range led to
researchers capturing rare video of an endangered species
that hasn’t been spotted in over 60 years.

Researchers with Expedition Cyclops were able to capture
the first-ever photographic evidence of Attenborough’s long-
beaked echidna, a critically endangered egg-laying mammal,
in Indonesia, according to a report from NBC News.

(FOX NEWS)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

An optimistic and upbeat President John F. Kennedy suggested
that the Soviet Union and the United States cooperate on a
mission to mount an expedition to the moon. The proposal
caught both the Soviets and many Americans off guard.

In 1961, shortly after his election as president, John F. Kennedy announced that he was determined to win the “space race” with
the Soviets.

 
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Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
(August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023)

Singer Tony Bennet received many accolades,
including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime
Achievement Award, and two Primetime
Emmy Awards. Bennett was named an NEA
Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree
and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the
Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. He sold
more than 50 million records worldwide and
earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand
and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first
explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at
29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.