Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African female to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Captain James Cook landed on Poverty Bay, New Zealand, where he studied and explored the land.
An intergovernmental panel on Climate Change reported that the planet will heat up by 2.7°F by 2040, which will wreak havoc on our world.
The Treaty of Ried was signed between Bavaria and Austria.
Isabella of Angoulême was crowned Queen consort of England at Westminster Abbey, London.
Wisconsin was struck by the deadliest wildfire in US history.
