On This Day: June 11 1770 – Captain James Cook discovers Grea | Roscongress Direct
On This Day: June 11
1770 – Captain James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1842 – Nikolay Gogol's novel Dead Souls published. It is one of the best satires written in Russain
1930 – American zoologist Charles William Beebe and engineer Otis Barton dive to 400 meters in the bathysphere they built, off the coast of Nonsuch Island, becoming the first people to observe deep-sea animals in their native environment
1988 – Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (7,52 m).
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