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

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 is operated by Pan Am

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

Source: Onthisday.com