On This Day in History |
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 | Captain Phillip steps ashore in a new land. Photo: Sydney Living Museums |
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1787 First Fleet headed by Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of convicts for Botany Bay, Australia. |
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president. |
1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons. |
1981 Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Ağcain St Peter's Square, Vatican City. |
1989 Approximately 2,000 students begin a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China to force a dialogue with the government ahead of a visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Also Arthur Sullivan, Joe Louis and Dennis Rodman (63). |
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Captain Arthur Phillip commanded a fleet of British ships carrying convicts to New South Wales on this day, effectively founding the British colony of Australia. |
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