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Gday...

1475  -     Michelangelo, Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, is born. 

1937  -     The first woman in space, Russian Valentina Tereshkova, is born. 

1788  -     Lieutenant Philip Gidley King establishes the first settlement on Norfolk Island.

1987  -     193 are killed as a car ferry, the 'Herald of Free Enterprise', capsizes just outside Zeebrugge, Belgium, enroute to England.

1994  -     The second Biosphere 2 mission begins.

Cheers - John



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