1611: Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, oldest existing university in Asia and largest Catholic university in the world
1770: British Captain James Cook, aboard HMS Endeavour, first lands in Australia at Botany Bay
1789: Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific
1910: First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White takes place in England
1937: First commercial flight across the Pacific, operated by Pan Am
1977: Andreas Baader and members of terrorist group the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) are jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly two years in Stuttgart, Germany
Source: Onthisday.com
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