Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Aug. 25, 1928, announcing the start of Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica. On ...

NPG copy 39088008417768 is not first edition. NPG copy 39088008417768 includes National Geographic Society map (folded) of "The Antarctic regions" dated c1932, inserted. Notes from a journal -- The ...

On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, killing an estimated 230 people. Also on this date: In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr.

While Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was enjoying his 10th birthday on Oct. 25, 1898, in Virginia, Roald Amundsen, a young Norwegian explorer was stuck aboard a Belgian ship in Antarctica. Separated by ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 25, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 25, 1928, an expedition led by Adm. Richard ...