This Day in History: Explorer John C. Fremont begins his second of four great western expeditions which reveal the grandeur of the Great Salt Lake and mountainous terrain throughout the southern Rockies, 1843; cheeseheads celebrate as Wisconsin enters the Union, 1848; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to climb to "the top of the world"- Mount Everest, a stunning accomplishment for which Hillary was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth, 1953; Igor shocks the world- not as a horror film character, but as a composer with Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" being performed for the first time in Paris, setting the stage for a dramatically different phase in modern music, 1913 www.GenePisasale.com www.FoodWineTravelHistory.com www.TravelReviewsHistoricSites.com
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