James Cook, the British explorer, navigator, and cartographer who was the first European to discover much of Australia, the Pacific Islands, and New Zealand, was born in Marton, Yorkshire, England in 1728.
James Cook, a renowned British Naval Captain, Navigator and Explorer who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada and conducted three expeditions to Pacific Ocean was born on October 27th, in the year1728.
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Julia Roberts, an American actress, was born in Smyrna, Georgia in 1967.
Rene Goscinny's "Asterix" is originally published in the French magazine "Pilote" in 1959, drawn by Albert Uderzo.
Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is published in London by Benjamin Motte in 1726.
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Lala Lajpat Rai, an Indian freedom fighter, was injured in 1928 while organizing a quiet demonstration against a visiting British commission in Lahore.
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