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Birthdays for author and activist Arundhati Roy (1961) and actor Katherine Heigl (1978) Anniversary of: • Dutch explorer Abel Tasman ‘discovered’ Van Diemen’s Land (1642) Abel Janszoon Tasman was a […]
Birthdays for author and activist Arundhati Roy (1961) and actor Katherine Heigl (1978)
Anniversary of:
• Dutch explorer Abel Tasman ‘discovered’ Van Diemen’s Land (1642)
Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company. He was the first known European explorer to reach New Zealand and the islands of Fiji and Van Diemen’s Land.
Tasman was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to investigate the rest of this mysterious Southern land, then called Terra australis incognita. … He participated in anti-smuggling raids and other governmental marine exercises before working with the Dutch East India Company.
• the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection (1859)
• Kevin Rudd and Labor beat John Howard’s Liberal-National Coalition to claim government for the first time in almost 12 years (2007)
• the deaths of Queen’s Freddie Mercury (1991) and Aussie wit Clive James (2019)
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