Black Fact = 1866 (August 8) – Matthew A. Henson, explorer and the first person to reach the North Pole, was born in Culver City, MD, on this date in 1866. Explorer Robert Edwin Peary hired Henson as his valet for expeditions. For more than two decades, they explored the Arctic, and on April 6, 1909, Peary, Henson and the rest of their team made history, becoming the first people to reach the North Pole—or at least they claimed to have. Henson died in New York City in 1955.
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