* 1954-The Tournament of Roses Parade becomes the first event televised nationally in color

* 1954-The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high of 382. 74, the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929

The orbiter is named after the British HMS Endeavour, the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery ( 1768 – 1771 ).

The first written reference to the word, " tattoo " ( or Samoan " Tatau ") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour: " I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition ".

At the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, an exhibition garden celebrated the historic link between naturalist Sir Joseph Banks and the botanical discoveries of flora and fauna on his journey through South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and eventually Australia on Captain Cook's ship Endeavour.

Sir Joseph Banks and others saw the value of breadfruit as a highly productive food in 1769, when stationed in Tahiti as part of the Endeavour expedition commanded by Captain James Cook.

* ed., The Journals of Captain James Cook: The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771, Cambridge, 1955, reprinted 1968.

Coming from New Zealand in 1770, Captain James Cook in HM Bark Endeavour sighted land at Point Hicks, about 70 km west of Gabo Island, before turning east and north to follow the coast of Australia.

Stowaway, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1768.

The many Aboriginal versions of this ' Captain Cook ' are rarely oral recollections of encounters with the Lieutenant James Cook who first navigated and mapped Australia's east coast on the HM Bark Endeavour in 1770.

The Glass House Mountains were named by Captain James Cook as he sailed north up the coast of what is now Queensland in 1770 as part of his epic voyage aboard his ship HM Bark Endeavour.

This prominence was the first part of New Zealand sighted by the crew of Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour, and was named for the crew member who first saw it.

Captain James Cook, sailing in HM Bark Endeavour, sailed into the bay on 12 October 1769.

With his partner Charles Bishop Bass sailed from Sydney in the Venus for Dusky Sound in New Zealand where they spent 14 days stripping iron from the wreck of Captain Brampton's old ship the Endeavour.

A full-size replica of local-born Captain James Cook's ship HM Bark Endeavour is moored at the quayside and provides entertainment and educational functions.

Captain James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour were the first Europeans to contemplate the Whangarei Harbour entrance.

In 1770 Lieutenant ( later Captain ) James Cook, in command of the HMS Endeavour, sailed along the east coast of Australia, becoming the first known Europeans to do so.

Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour is believed to have been scuttled in the bay, as part of a blockade by the British, whose occupation of Newport was threatened by a fleet carrying French soldiers in support of the Continental Army.

A walking trail from the museum to the Endeavour Lighthouse, offers spectacular views across the bay to the site of Captain Cook's Landing Place.

During Cronulla ’ s first season the crest featured a drawing of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour.

In 1970, the name ' Endeavour Hills ' was coined in honour of the two hundredth anniversary of Captain James Cook's arrival in Botany Bay.

Botany Bay is where Captain James Cook first landed on 29 April 1770, when navigating his way around Australia on his ship, the Endeavour.

* It is suggested that the name was taken from able seaman Forby Sutherland, who died on Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage.

The Cronulla-Sutherland League's Club and home ground, Endeavour Field, are located on Captain Cook Drive at Woolooware.

The Endeavour: Captain Cook's first voyage to Australia ( 1954 ) was a prose work.

In that year Captain Charles Bishop and George Bass in the Venus spent 14 days in Dusky Sound stripping iron from the hulk of Captain Brampton's old ship the Endeavour.

James Cook succeeded in circumnavigating the world ( 1768 – 71 ) in HM Bark Endeavour without losing a single man to scurvy, but his suggested methods, including a diet of sauerkraut and wort of malt, were of limited value.

April 13: James Cook | Cook in Tahiti on HM Bark Endeavour | Endeavour.

* April 13 – James Cook arrives in Tahiti on the ship HM Bark Endeavour, preparing to observe the transit of the planet Venus, which takes place on June 3.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during 1769 – 1770.

Dalrymple's claim of the existence of an unknown continent aroused widespread interest and prompted the British government in 1769 to order James Cook in HM Bark Endeavour to seek out the Southern Continent to the South and West of Tahiti.

Lieutenant James Cook became the first European to note the region when he sailed along the coast on 16 May 1770 in the HM Bark Endeavour.

For the second voyage Beaglehole used two other partial journals in Cook ’ s hand, both of which had the same early history as the Endeavour journal.

It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during ( 1769 – 1770 ).

The university is named after the British sea captain James Cook who popularised the discovery and potential colonial value of the east coast of Australia and whose exploratory vessel HM Bark Endeavour ran aground for repairs in North Queensland.

Guugu Yimidhirr predecessors, along the Endeavour River, did encounter James Cook during a 7-week period beached at the site of the present town of Cooktown while the Endeavour was being repaired.

The mountain's English name was bestowed on it by Lieutenant James Cook in May 1770, as his expedition in command of the Endeavour passed it by on their route northwards along the eastern coastline of Australia.

In 1778, Lieutenant James Cook named the island after the family name of the Duke of Grafton, who was the British Prime Minister when his ship, the HMB Endeavour, had set sail.

The Hope islands were named by Lt James Cook in June 1770 just after his HM Bark Endeavour struck the nearby Endeavour Reef.

Endeavour ’ s upgrades include:

STS-68 Endeavour ( September 30 to October 11, 1994 ) was part of NASA ’ s Mission to Planet Earth.

SIR-C / X-SAR and MAPS operated together in Endeavour ’ s cargo bay to study Earth ’ s surface and atmosphere, creating radar images of Earth ’ s surface environment and mapping global production and transport of carbon monoxide pollution.

Two astronauts participated in a spacewalk and EURECA ( European Retrievable Carrier ) was retrieved by the crew and stowed inside Endeavour ’ s payload bay.

Liftoff of STS-57EURECA is stowed by Endeavour ’ s remote manipulator system ( RMS )

An improperly installed electrical connector on Endeavour ’ s Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) arm ( installed 180 degrees off its correct position ) prevented EURECA from recharging its batteries with orbiter power.

The experiment, called the Fluid Acquisition and Resupply Experiment, or FARE, studied filters and processes that may lead to methods of refueling spacecraft in orbit and transfers water between two foot-diameter transparent tanks on Endeavour ’ s middeck, engineers can evaluate how the fluids behave while the shuttle's steering jets are fired for small maneuvers.

This was Endeavour ’ s last flight before entering its Orbiter Major Modification period until 2007, and also the last shuttle mission before the Columbia disaster.

The MAPS project's Vickie Connors reported to Endeavour ’ s Red Team that there was good correlation between what the instruments on board were reading compared to data gathered on the ground.

The pale blue Earth serves as a backdrop for astronaut Michael Gernhardt, who is attached to the Shuttle Endeavour ’ s robot arm during a spacewalk on the STS-69 mission in 1995.

Space Shuttle Endeavour launched at 3: 35: 34 am EST from the Kennedy Space Center ’ s Launch Pad 39A.

The crew also started preparing for the multiple engine firings that will be performed to bring shuttle Endeavour within the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System ’ s reach of the Zarya FGB.

Nancy Currie conducted a photo survey of Unity and Endeavour ’ s payload bay, using the shuttle ’ s robotic arm, Canadarm.

On Flight Day 4, Bob Cabana fired Endeavour ’ s rockets several times to maneuver the shuttle within Canadarm ’ s reach of the Zarya FGB.

Later, at 9: 07 pm EST, Cabana fired Endeavour ’ s downward jets to bring the two modules together.

On the 6th day of Endeavour ’ s STS-88 mission, Mission Specialists Jerry Ross and Jim Newman relaxed after their long spacewalk on Flight Day 5.

Commander Bob Cabana and Pilot Rick Sturckow fired Endeavour ’ s main reaction control system jets for 22 minutes to raise the ISS approximately 5 statute miles.

Endeavour ’ s crew also conducted interviews with CNN and CBS News.

At 3: 25 pm EST, Pilot Rick Sturckow backed Endeavour away from the station and started a nose-forward fly-around of the station, so that Endeavour ’ s crew could take pictures of the space station.