2013 Event Scientists in the Australian state of Queensland discover three previously unknown species in a rainforest located in Cape York Peninsula: a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-colored skink, and a boulder-dwelling frog 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
