On September 7, 1909, the New York Times ran a front-page headline stating 'Peary Discovers the North Pole After Eight Trials in 23 Years.'
Notes on verification
Exact headline and date corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources and an archival reproduction of the actual NYT front page. [tier=gold indep_score=0.838 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Who Discovered the North Pole? (seed:firsts_and_inventions)
- https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-black-american-to-reach-the-north-pole/ (corroboration)
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/columns/quest/quest-for-the-north-pole-episode-7-podcast-transcript (corroboration)
- https://www.grangeracademic.com/results.asp?inline=true&image=0259141&wwwflag=4&itemx=24 (corroboration)
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-peary (corroboration)