2005 Deep Impact spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral
1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
1996 NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1996 Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
1993 Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
1991 Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60
1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
1981 Cape Verde amends its constitution
1980 Cape Verde adopts its constitution
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1976 Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1975 Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina
1974 ? Rosenkowitz, Cape Town South Africa, 1st sextuplets to survive born to Sue
1973 Juliette Lewis, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear
1973 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
1970 Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs. Australia, Cape Town
1968 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
1966 Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
1963 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963 Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer, 1992 CGIA Canadian Tour
1962 Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1959 Barrie Chase, actress, Mardi Gras, Cape Fear
1959 David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer, 1988 Southern Open
1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town
1957 Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner, Oly-gold-1984
1956 African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms
1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1954 KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Allan Lamb, cricketer, Langebaanweg, Cape Prov, 79 Tests for England
1952 Linda M. Godwin, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, PhD/astronaut, STS 37, 59, 76
1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1951 Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer, 1982 Dinah Shore
1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1944 Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1943 Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau, Louisiana, rocker, I Can Help
1942 U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
1940 Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor, Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas
1934 Pedro Pires, premier, Cape Verde, 1975-91
1925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925 Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist, A Walk in the Night
1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
1914 Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor, Winston Churchill-Ike
1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
1911 Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1906 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
1902 Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
1901 Charles Farrell, Cape Cod Massachusetts, actor, Vern-My Little Margie
1900 Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
1900 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1899 Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die
1898 SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed
1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng vs. SA (Cape Town)
1890 Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs. England
1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1875 "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies
1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400
1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC
1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
1861 Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark
1857 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
1856 Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1854 Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony
1853 Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
1838 John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75
1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
1834 HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1832 Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas in St. Martin at Cape Receiver
1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1832 Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde
1814 Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1811 1st U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA
1806 Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1806 Cape colony becomes English colony
1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent
1795 Cape Colony surrenders to England
1792 [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal
1781 French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1780 Battle at Cape St. Vincent: Admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet
1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
1778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
1767 Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
1762 John W. Janssens, Governor-General of Cape colony/Dutch-Indies 1811
1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
1723 Willem van de Pose, Governor of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1712 Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72
1687 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope
1677 John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established
1651 John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope
1647 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1646 John C Lichthart, Admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
1639 Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of Cape colony, 1679-99
1629 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape
1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod
1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast
1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony
1616 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
1497 Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
1488 Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
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