"He who forgets history is doomed (or condemned) to repeat it"
George Santayana
1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia.
1789 Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty and Captain William Bligh.
1914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner.
1965 U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966.
1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money.
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends (3 days).
2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.
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