1788 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).
1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege would not be fully lifted until a year later.
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV.
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