1788
Settling Sydney
The First Fleet, carrying convicts and sheep, arrived in Australia's Botany Bay.
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1733
The first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston.
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1778
Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
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1782
Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire.
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1912
The ill-fated Scott expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover Amundsen had been there first.
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1943
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1993
All 50 states joined in the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
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