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2012 Event - The first space-bound Orion spacecraft is unveiled in Cape Canaveral, FloridaFlorida by NASA and Lockheed Martin

2011 Event - Hurricane Irene lands in North Carolina, near Cape Lookout

2010 Event - In the Atlantic Ocean, tropical storm Lisa forms off the Cape Verde Islands

2005 Event - Deep Impact spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral

1997 Event - Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site

1996 Event - NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral

1996 Event - Dutch/Italian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral

1993 Death - Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80

1992 Death - Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1991 Death - Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60

1989 Event - 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral

1981 Event - Cape Verde amends its constitution

1980 Event - Cape Verde adopts its constitution

1977 Event - European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral

1976 Event - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die

1975 Event - Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule

1974 Event - "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina

1974 Birthday - ? Rosenkowitz, Cape Town South Africa, 1st sextuplets to survive born to Sue

1973 Birthday - Juliette Lewis, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear

1973 Death - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67

1970 Event - Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs. Australia, Cape Town

1968 Event - 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy

1966 Event - Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy

1963 Event - 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral

1963 Death - Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80

1963 Birthday - Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer, 1992 CGIA Canadian Tour

1962 Event - Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral

1959 Birthday - Barrie Chase, actress, Mardi Gras, Cape Fear

1959 Birthday - David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer, 1988 Southern Open

1958 Event - Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town

1957 Birthday - Joan Benoit Samuelson, born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, marathoner, Gold Medal 1994 Olympics

1956 Event - African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms

1956 Event - 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)

1954 Event - KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 Birthday - Allan Lamb, cricketer, Langebaanweg, Cape Prov, 79 Tests for England

1952 Birthday - Linda M. Godwin, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, PhD/astronaut, STS-37, 59, 76

1952 Event - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany

1951 Birthday - Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer, 1982 Dinah Shore

1950 Event - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral

1949 Event - Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

1944 Event - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink

1943 Birthday - Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau, Louisiana, rocker, I Can Help

1942 Event - U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance

1941 Event - Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy

1940 Birthday - Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor, Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas

1936 Birthday - Daniel Goode, born in America, composer, clarinetist, studied with Henry Cowell, influenced by Indonesian gamelan music, bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, minimal music, member, Gamelan Son of Lion, Director, Electronic Music Studio, Rutgers University

1934 Birthday - Pedro Pires, premier, Cape Verde, 1975-91

1929 Birthday - Mel Hancock, born in Cape Fair, Missouri, Representative-R-Missouri 1989 - 1997

1928 Birthday - Chic Hecht, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Senator-R-Nevada 1983 - 1989

1925 Death - Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71

1925 Birthday - Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist, A Walk in the Night

1919 Birthday - Hugh FitzRoy, born in Cape Town, South Africa, 11th Duke of Grafton, Deputy Lieutenant, KG, patrilineal descendant of King Charles II's third eldest illegitimate son

1915 Event - Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont

1914 Birthday - Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor, Winston Churchill-Ike

1911 Event - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1911 Event - Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east

1910 Event - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa

1909 Event - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC

1906 Birthday - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian

1904 Birthday - Jess Stacy, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, pianist, jazz musician, played with Tommy Dorsey, recorded with Lee Wiley, Nelson Riddle in The Great Gatsby soundtrack

1902 Death - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48

1901 Event - Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony

1901 Event - Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony

1901 Event - Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony

1901 Birthday - Charles Farrell, Cape Cod Massachusetts, actor, Vern-My Little Margie

1900 Event - Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony

1900 Event - 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska

1900 Event - British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)

1899 Event - Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1899 Event - Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1898 Event - Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die

1898 Event - SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed

1896 Event - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony

1895 Event - Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony

1892 Event - 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs. South Africa (Cape Town)

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony

1889 Event - 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs. England

1879 Event - Africaner Union forms by Reverend SJ du Toit at Cape colony

1877 Event - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony

1875 Event - "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies

1865 Event - SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400

1862 Event - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC

1861 Event - Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI

1861 Event - Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark

1857 Event - 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC

1856 Event - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony

1854 Birthday - Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony

1853 Birthday - Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896

1853 Birthday - Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of South African Cape colony

1838 Death - John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75

1836 Event - HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands

1836 Event - HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope

1834 Event - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn

1832 Event - Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St. Martin at Cape Receiver

1832 Event - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver

1832 Event - Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde

1814 Event - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch

1811 Event - 1st U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA

1806 Event - Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope

1806 Event - Cape colony becomes English colony

1797 Event - Battle of Cape St. Vincent

1795 Event - Cape Colony surrenders to England

1792 Birthday - [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal

1781 Event - French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope

1780 Event - Battle at Cape St. Vincent: Admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet

1778 Event - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits

1778 Event - Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state

1767 Event - Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope

1762 Birthday - John W. Janssens, Governor-General of Cape colony/Dutch-Indies 1811

1745 Event - American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French

1723 Death - Willem van de Pose, Governor of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59

1718 Event - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish

1718 Event - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish

1712 Death - Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72

1687 Event - 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope

1677 Death - John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57

1652 Event - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa

1652 Event - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established

1651 Event - John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope

1647 Event - Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay

1646 Death - John C Lichthart, Admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45

1639 Birthday - Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of Cape colony, 1679-99

1629 Event - Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape

1620 Event - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod

1620 Event - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast

1619 Birthday - John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony

1616 Event - Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver

1607 Event - 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va

1602 Event - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

1595 Event - Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope

1497 Event - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope

1497 Event - Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope

1488 Event - Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope

1434 Event - Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon













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