1738 - Inventor of the concept of the guillotine, Joseph Guillotin, is born.
1841 - Eyre's party names the spot where the isolated town of Eyre will be, when they find fresh water two metres below the sandy surface.
1901 - Sir Edmund Barton is officially elected as the first Prime Minister of Australia.
1912 - Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott writes his final diary entry on his ill-fated expedition.
1974 - The Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
1979 - The US House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations concludes its report regarding the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
Cheers - John
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2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Auto - 2008 23ft Golden Eagle Hunter Some people feel the rain - the others just get wet - Bob Dylan
