1611-Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world
1770-British Captain James Cook, aboard HMS Endeavour, first lands in Australia at Botany Bay
1910-First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White takes place in England
1937-First commercial flight across the Pacific is operated by Pan Am
1967-Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1977-Andreas Baader and members of the terrorist group Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) are jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly two years in Stuttgart, Germany
1986 — Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event
1989-Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
Source: Korea Times News
