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1778 Captain Cook sighted the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).

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1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, farmer who patented the first commercially viable barbed wire, born in New Hampshire.

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1871 William of Prussia was proclaimed the first German Emperor.

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1882 AA Milne, children’s writer, was born.

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1884 Arthur Ransome, children’s writer, was born.

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1911 piloted by Lt Eugene B Ely, the first aircraft to land on a ship touched down on the cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbour.

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1919 the Versailles Peace Conference opened.

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1989 Bruce Chatwin, travel writer (In Patagonia) and novelist, died in Nice aged 48.