1492 - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" first sighted
1769 - Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand (Poverty Bay)
1822 - First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle
1991 – Croatia Independence Day
