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April 29

HMS Endeavour

1770 – On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (pictured) landed at Botany Bay, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.
1903 – A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.
1944 – Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local Maquis group.
1968 – The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
2006 – Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe, Myanmar, causing 37 deaths.

George Farquhar (d. 1707)
Marietta Blau (b. 1894)
Giacomo dalla Torre (d. 2020)

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