1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony.
1911 First shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania).
1919 The Paris peace conference (aka the Versailles peace conference) opened to draw up the treaties formally ending the Great War (WW1).
1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min.
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV.
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