On This Day... In 1956, Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole. In 1943, the F4U Corsair accomplished the first successful radar-guided interception. In 1941, the Mount Rushmore monument was completed. In 1913, the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across America, was dedicated. And in 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." Happy Birthday Piper Perabo (1976), Vanilla Ice (1967), Rob Schneider (1963), Peter Jackson 1961), John Candy (1950-1994), David Ogden Stiers (1942) and Michael Landon (1936