1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia.
1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific.
1939 Adolf Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect.
1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Höss (not Hess, different Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz.
1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along US East Coast.
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats off Slapton Sands, Devon.
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO
1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title.
1967 The Douglas Aircraft Company behind schedule with deliveries of the DC-8 and DC-9 and close to bankruptcy agrees to merge with the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to form McDonnell Douglas.
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.
1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer and his wife Rosario plead guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.
1996 In Australia's worst massacre in modern history, Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Leads to a compulsory gun buy back program and major changes to gun control laws.
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