This Day in History: The first European explorers reach the magnetic North Pole, 1831; Lou Gehrig- "the Iron Man" of baseball- seps up to the plate to pinch hit for Pee Wee Wanninger, the first game in 2,130 consecutive games he played over 14 years which made him one of the greatest players ever to take the field, for which he later said to an admiring crowd "I'm the luckiest man in the world..."..., 1925; a British rock group changes the world of music forever with a long-playing (L.P.) album based on a Sergeant who was lonely, 1967; Helen keller dies- the deaf, dumb and blind woman an amazing example of what can be accomplished with a strong will and determination, having graduated cum laude from Radcliffe and going on a lecture tour around the world, writing several books about her life's journey, 1968; Cable News Network (CNN) debuts, bucking the establishment news channels ABC, NBC and CBS in doing news 24-hours a day, at first being ridiculed as the "Chicken Noodle Network" and later for its strongly liberal reporting as the "Commie News Network", the station set the tone for news in the 1980's and 1990's, especially during the Gulf War, when Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell said "The best coverage I've seen was on CNN...", 1980
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