We had become good friends during my stay at Cook County Hospital.

* 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

1995 — The French Government resumed its Programme of nuclear-weapons testing at Mururoa Atoll in September 1995 upsetting the Cook Islands.

During the time that Mr. Cook was overseer, I was a house servant — a situation preferable to a field hand, as I was better fed, better clothed, and not obliged to rise at the ringing bell, but about an half hour after.

Despite the need to start back at the bottom of the naval hierarchy, Cook realised his career would advance more quickly in military service and entered the Navy at Wapping on 7 June 1755.

Cook married Elizabeth Batts ( 1742 – 1835 ), the daughter of Samuel Batts, keeper of the Bell Inn, Wapping and one of his mentors, on 21 December 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking, Essex.

When not at sea, Cook lived in the East End of London.

In June 1757 Cook passed his master's examinations at Trinity House, Deptford, which qualified him to navigate and handle a ship of the King's fleet.

His five seasons in Newfoundland produced the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts ; they also gave Cook his mastery of practical surveying, achieved under often adverse conditions, and brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society at a crucial moment both in his career and in the direction of British overseas discovery.

Following on from his exertions in Newfoundland, it was at this time that Cook wrote that he intended to go not only:

mile ) coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at, about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands.

Aoraki / Mt Cook at dusk viewed from the Tekapo Canal

The two main islands are separated by Cook Strait, 24 km wide at its narrowest point, but requiring a 70-km ferry trip to cross.

The Duchess was dead at the time of the island's sighting by Cook, but Cook had set out from England in 1772 and could not have known of her May 1773 death.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

Cook was born at his parents ' house " Shearbridge ", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

It was at Pembroke that Cook performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club, of which he became president in 1960.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

The show became a great success in London after being first performed at the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.

In 1961 Cook opened the Establishment club at 18 Greek Street in Soho in central London, presenting fellow comedians in a nightclub setting, including American Lenny Bruce.

Cook befriended and supported Australian comedian and actor Barry Humphries, who began his British solo career at the club.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Ron Cook, then 35, in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare production of the play, was closest in age, and bore some facial resemblance to the Society of Antiquaries portrait.

A young boy, Bugler John Cook, served in the U. S. Army at the age of 15 and received the Medal of Honor for his acts during the Civil War Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.

His marriage over, he died at age 53 on June 21, 1932 — a pauper in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, in the charity ward of Cook County Hospital — to be buried in an unmarked grave.

Cook first appeared in a public service announcement for foster care at 7 years of age, and began working as a child print model at the age of 10, most notably in nationwide advertisements for Target and appearing on the boxes of Milk-Bone dog biscuits.

Cook began auditioning for acting work at the age of 14.

Carey was born Mary Ellen Cook in Cleveland, Ohio to a mother with schizophrenia and a father with cerebral palsy and was cared for by her grandparents from the age of three months.

She still occasionally performs at pop concerts ( most recently with Broadway star Barbara Cook ), her voice undimmed by age.

At the age of 10, Cook started working as an assistant to a local market gardener for a wage of six pence a week.

Notable examples of social mobility include Pierre Bérégovoy who started working at the age of 16 as a metal worker and later became Prime Minister of France, Ramsay MacDonald the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Joseph Cook, an Englishman who had no schooling and worked as a coal miner at the age of nine and went on to become Prime Minister of Australia.

Mabo worked on a number of jobs before becoming a gardener with James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland at the age of 31.

The shape of Little Miss 1565's face and that of Eleanor Cook are dissimilar, and the height and age of the two girls do not match up.

A dancer from age four, Cook began taking jazz, tap and ballet lessons.

Enlisting in the Continental Army at the age of sixteen, Cook fought at Brandywine and in the Virginia campaign, and was present at Charles Cornwallis ' surrender.

Lemuel Cook died at the age of 106 and was buried with full military and masonic honors.

Rokocoko migrated to New Zealand with his family at the age of 5, settling in South Auckland and he attended James Cook High School.

As a result, at the age of 18 Cook moved to Porth in South Wales, and later to Merthyr Tydfil, to find work in the coal mines ; he also was a Baptist preacher in the local chapel.

Daniel Cook always suffered from poor health and died on October 16, 1827, at the age of 33 in Scott County, Kentucky.

Following Daniel's untimely death at the age of 33, his widow Julia Catherine Cook moved with their only child, John, back to Belleville, where she died three years later, leaving Cook as an orphan.

Born in Lafayette, Georgia to Reverend Jesse Mercer Dodd and Effie Cook Dodd ( the artist Lamar Dodd was his first cousin ), Ed Dodd went to work for Dan Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America, at the age of 16.

At age eight he studied violin, first with Will Marion Cook and then he continued his studies with Martin Legowitz at age Twelve.