Cook Sights Australia
1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia and writes in his logbook that “what we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand”
- 1892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made automobile for a test drive
- 1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published
Shirley Temple's 1st Film
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her first feature-length film, "Stand Up and Cheer"
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 "Bride of Frankenstein," a horror film classic and sequel to "Frankenstein," starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester is released
Hofmann Takes LSD
1943 Bicycle Day honours Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovering the effects of LSD
- 1948 American Broadcasting Company (ABC) TV network debuts
- 1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying players' names on their backs
- 1967 The Beatles sign a contract agreeing to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
- 1982 Guion Bluford is announced as the first African American NASA astronaut
Event of Interest
1982 Sally Ride is named the first American woman astronaut
- 1984 Nemesis, the death star of dinosaurs, first appears in print in Nature magazine
- 1985 16th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-D): Discovery 4 returns to Earth
- 2021 NASA successfully flies its drone helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, first powered aircraft to fly on another world
- 2024 World's largest-ever election begins in India with 968 million eligible voters, in the first of seven stages ending 1 June
