* 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

At the same time, another part of the Colony of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, was split off to become the Colony of Cape Breton Island.

* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).

* 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

At this time Jonathan Cape rejected A Scullion's Diary, the first version of Down and Out.

At about the same time, however, a group of slaves revolted and captured a ship on which they were traveling, and ended up wrecking it at Cape Gracias a Dios.

* 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

* February 6 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

At the Cape Henry Memorial located at Joint Expeditionary Base East in Virginia Beach, Virginia, there is monument commemorating the contribution of de Grasse and his sailors to the cause of American independence.

At the time the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony was Cecil Rhodes, a man driven by a vision of a British controlled Africa extending from Cape to Cairo.

At the other extreme, another powerful Cape politician at the time, Saul Solomon, proposed an extremely loose system of federation, with the component states preserving their very different constitutions and systems of franchise.

At the time of the formation of the Union of South Africa, the entire region now called South Africa was only four provinces: Transvaal ( South African Republic ), Natal ( Natalia Republic ), Orange Free State and the Cape Province.

At the end of the song, Arion threw himself into the sea rather than be killed, but one of the dolphins saved his life and carried him to safety at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Cape Tainaron.

At the end of the 19th century, with the advent of the ocean liner, the island's position astride Atlantic shipping lanes made Cape Verde an ideal location for resupplying ships with fuel ( imported coal ), water and livestock.

At the southern extreme lies Cape Kure in Kushimoto, Wakayama.

At this period the settlers saw Cook Strait in a broader sense than today's ferry-oriented New Zealanders: for them the strait stretched from Taranaki to Cape Campbell, so these early towns all clustered around " Cook Strait " ( or " Cook's Strait ", in the pre-Geographic Board usage of the times ) as the central feature and central waterway of the new colony.

At its narrowest point, separate Cape Terawhiti in the North Island from Perano Head on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough Sounds.

At that point, again, routes may vary: one way is through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean ; the other is around Cape of Good Hope and then up the west coast of Africa.

At its launch attempt on December 6, 1957 at Cape Canaveral, the booster ignited and began to rise ; but about two seconds after liftoff, after rising about four feet ( 1. 2 m ), the rocket lost thrust and began to fall back to the launch pad.

At the outbreak of the Crimean War, the garrison was evacuated from Navaginsky in order to prevent its capture by the Turks, who effected a landing on Cape Adler soon after.

At these meetings, a frequent speaker, Abbé Guillaume Raynal, emphasised the " rights of man ".

The present Château de La Roche-Guyon was built in the 12th century, controlling a river crossing of the Seine, itself one of the routes to and from Normandy ; The Abbé Suger described its grim aspect: " At the summit of a steep promontory, dominating the bank of the great river Seine, rises a frightful castle without title to nobility, called La Roche.

At a difficult time for critical historians applying modern methods to Church history, drawing together archaeology and topography to supplement literature and setting ecclesiastical events with contexts of social history, Abbé Duchesne was in constant correspondence with like-minded historians among the Bollandists, with their long history of critical editions of hagiographies.

At this period the Abbé Courtépée cites it as among ' the most distinguished vineyards ' of Vosne, at the quality level of Romanée-Saint-Vivant, Varoilles, Tache, Malconsorts and other Echézeaux.

At the door Alex managed to persuade the increasingly astonished fille de chambre to return in ten minutes.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

At the north end of the Nuestra Señora de la Soledad cathedral, with blue onion-shaped domes and Byzantine towers.

At 9: 30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.

At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.

At the same time, in October 1908, Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity of the Ottoman political upheaval to annex the de jure Ottoman province of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878 ( see Bosnian Crisis ), and Bulgaria declared itself a fully independent kingdom.

At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, the rebellious barons, led by Simon de Montfort, had defeated the royal army and taken King Henry III captive.

At his father's suggestion as a teenager, Hayek read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach.

At the same time, further edicts stripped the gens de couleur of their newly won civil rights.

At USU de Garis announced he was establishing a " brain builder " group to create a second generation " CAM-brain ".

At Cuevas de la Araña en Bicorp | Araña Caves in Spain.

At Torquilstone, de Bracy expresses his love for the Lady Rowena, but is refused.

* 1608 – At Ticonderoga ( now Crown Point, New York ), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs.

At the age of 16, she asked a kinsman, Durand Lassois, to bring her to nearby Vaucouleurs, where she petitioned the garrison commander, Count Robert de Baudricourt, for permission to visit the royal French court at Chinon.

At the beginning of that reign Malesherbes during his short ministry endeavoured to infuse some measure of justice into the system, and in March 1784 the baron de Breteuil, a minister of the king's household, addressed a circular to the intendants and the lieutenant of police with a view to preventing the most serious abuses connected with the issue of lettres de cachet.

At Pavillon de l ' Echiquier, Robertson set up a public phantasmagoria and told the audience he would conjure up their dead relatives.

At the beginning of World War I, Bishop de Berghes went to the United States at the suggestion of the Anglican Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

* 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis ' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.

At least seventeen finds of Papaver somniferum from Neolithic settlements have been reported throughout Switzerland, Germany, and Spain, including the placement of large numbers of poppy seed capsules at a burial site ( the Cueva de los Murciélagos, or " Bat cave ," in Spain ), which have been carbon-14 dated to 4200 BCE Numerous finds of Papaver somniferum or Papaver setigerum from Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements have also been reported.

At the fin de siècle, when Vienna was a major crucible and center for modern arts and culture, Altenberg was a very influential part of a literary and artistic movement known as Jung Wien or " Young Vienna ".

At the time, Drakes Bay went by the name Bahia de San Francisco and thus both bodies of water became associated with the name.

At the end of the 1920s, the carnival samba of blocks of the districts Estácio de Sá and Osvaldo Cruz was born, and in the hills of Mangueira, Salgueiro, and São Carlos, there were innovations in rhythmic samba that persist until the present day.

At the turn of the 1960s to the 1970s, the young Martinho da Vila would give a new face to the traditional sambas-enredo established by authors such as Silas de Oliveira and Mano Decio da Viola, compressing them and expanding its potential in the music market.