In a Lockheed Vega, Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who was knighted for his previous feat on April 15-21, 1928, and Carl B. Eielson make the first flight over Antarctica.
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.
