Captain James Cook sighted Australia for the first time.
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as Pope under the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Prolific killer Charles Manson was sentenced to death by gas chamber.
Grace Kelly married Rainier III, the Prince of Monaco.
The Warsaw Uprising involved Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resisting Nazi Germany during WWII.
The town of Chartres in France surrendered to King Henry IV.
