On this day

1778: Captain Cook discovered Hawaii.

1788: A penal settlement was established in Botany Bay, Australia.

1882: AA Milne, creator of Winnie The Pooh, was born.

1911: US pilot Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss aircraft, made the first landing on the deck of a ship – the cruiser Pennsylvania

moored in San Francisco Bay.

1933: The “bodyline bowling” row flared up in an Australian v England Test match in Adelaide.

1977: In the worst rail disaster in Australian history, 82 people died when a Sydney-bound train was derailed.

2009: Children’s television presenter Tony Hart died at the age of 83.