DECEMBER 14
1911:Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four others become the first men to reach the South Pole, arriving a month ahead of British rival Robert F. Scott's Antarctic expedition. (As this is written, a lady is about 65km from reaching the South Pole and becoming the first women to do so solo.)
1968: Motown singer Marvin Gaye scores the biggest hit of his career with "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," which reaches number one on the Billboard pop singles charts and remains there until January 1969.
1985: Wilma Mankiller is sworn in as the principal chief of
the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma; she is the first woman to lead a modern
American Indian tribe.
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