• 1770 – British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS
Endeavour , the first European ship to land in eastern
Australia, reached the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.
• 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide buried the town of
Frank, Northwest Territories, and killed at least 70 of the town's residents,
making it the deadliest landslide in Canadian history.
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