Timeline Tuesday 21 April 1908

Events on Tuesday 21 April 1908 1

• 1908 Frederick Cook claims to reach the North Pole Disputed expedition sparks a bitter priority controversy American explorer Frederick Cook announced that he had reached the North Pole with two Inuit companions, months before Robert Peary made the same claim. The rival assertions triggered a long public dispute over which explorer, if either, had actually reached the pole first. Cook's claim was later widely discredited by contemporaries and historians.