May 29
• In 1953, Mount Everest was conquered by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norkay of Nepal.
• In 1901, the Nome Daily News reported that Nome's first great fire erupted after a worker absentmindedly dropped a match into a pile of old wallpaper. The blaze destroyed eight blocks of the town. Firefighters were frustrated by ice in the hoses.
Not the same level of supreme human achievement, is it?
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