With the first reports, Russell's horse wheeled to the right and ran towards the buildings while Cook, followed by a hail of bullets, raced towards the arroyo of Salyer's Canyon immediately in front of him, just reaching it as his horse fell.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

In the Cook Islands, blue laws were first written legislation, enacted by the London Missionary Society in 1827, with the consent of ariki ( chiefs ).

The Cook – Levin theorem states that the Boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete, and in fact, this was the first decision problem proved to be NP-complete.

SAT was the first known NP-complete problem, as proved by Stephen Cook in 1971 ( see Cook's theorem for the proof ).

The Cook Islands were first settled around 600 AD by Polynesian people who migrated from nearby Tahiti to the southeast.

Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century ; the first written record of contact from Europeans with the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595 who called it San Bernardo ( Saint Bernard ).

The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.

After achieving autonomy in 1965, the Cook Islands elected Albert Henry of the Cook Islands Party as their first Prime Minister.

Albert Henry, leader of the Cook Islands Party, is elected as the territory's first prime minister.

In 1794, he first went to Cook Inlet, the northernmost point of his exploration, and from there followed the coast south.

Once again, Chapman collaborated with writer Bernard McKenna and for the first time with Peter Cook.

Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

Historians have speculated that this is where Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out of the shop window.

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.

* 1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.

* 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the " Sandwich Islands.

When James Cook went on his first voyage he carried wort ( 0. 1 mg vitamin C per 100 g ), sauerkraut ( 10 – 15 mg per 100 g ) and a syrup, or " rob ", of oranges and lemons ( the juice contains 40 – 60 mg of vitamin C per 100 g ) as antiscorbutics, but only the results of the trials on wort were published.

* 1910-Freda du Faur became the first woman to climb Aoraki / Mount Cook

The first European to sight Niue was Captain James Cook in 1774.

The British first sighted New Caledonia on 4 September 1774, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.

In 1926, Albert S. Cook suggested a Homeric connection due to equivalent formulas, metonymies, and analogous voyages.

The Cook Islands Herald suggested that the ariki were attempting thereby to regain some of their traditional prestige or mana.

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.

Turner, during the trial, picked apart the testimony of eyewitness Henry Cook, and in his opening and closing statements suggested the idea that Cook likely had been a lookout for a group of young men who broke in to steal beer, then grabbed the coins while they were at it.

Among English-speaking scholars Frazer and Cook have suggested an interpretation of Janus as uranic supreme god.

Robin Cook is even less coherent, and it has been suggested that the famous Doctor Who theme music was created by combining a recording of Cook explaining his views on the European Union with ( for the higher-pitched sounds ) his reaction to being told that all young, female BBC employees were turned on by ugly ginger men with beards.

Some BSAA pilots, however, have expressed scepticism at this theory ; convinced that Cook would not have started his descent without a positive indication that he had crossed the mountains, they have suggested that strong winds may have brought down the craft in some other way.

In 1984 he suggested that foreigners employed in industries should be replaced by unemployed Britons, and in 2001, shortly before his retirement as an MP, he became engulfed in a row within the Tory Party when, referring to a statement by Robin Cook that there was no such thing as a British race, he said that his constituents in Bridlington would not agree, and asked whether Robin Cook therefore thought instead that the British were a " mongrel race ".

Sherburne Cook carried out a more specific analysis of contact-period population in Alameda and Contra Costa counties west of the San Joaquin Valley, without regard to the Ohlone-Bay Miwok language boundary ; he suggested a total population of 2, 248.

A variety of names were suggested for the capital, including Olympus, Paradise, Captain Cook, Shakespeare, Kangaremu, Sydmeladperho, Eucalypta and Myola.

While serving his second term in the senate, Chicago Mayor, Richard J. Daley suggested that he run for clerk of the Cook County Court, instead, Rostenkowski pushed for and received Daley ’ s support to run for the United States Congress.

The staff suggested several possible call signs for the new station to the FCC including WVBC, WBCR, WRBC, WVOB, and WRJR ( after the first initials of staff members Ron Cook, Joan Williams Lepper, Ray Hendess, and Robert Kalisher ).

Historian James W. Cook has suggested that Juba and Diamond may have staged their first competition as a form of mutual publicity.

The attorney in his opening and closing statements suggested the idea that Cook likely had been a lookout for a group of young men who broke in to steal beer, then grabbed the coins while they were at it.

Author Nicholas Cook commented that the video promoted Madonna's identity as the song suggested, with the purpose of shifting " Madonna's image from that of a disco-bimbo to authentic star.

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio was suggested by Herbert Cook, who retracted his opinion, seeing Leonardo's own hand, in 1904.

Open water was about half a mile away and Cook suggested that trenches should be cut to the open water to allow the Belgica to escape the ice.

It was Cook who first suggested to Glaspell that she write plays and co-authored her first play Suppressed Desires.

Cook became bemused at the idea that they should not be making money from the increasing popularity of Derek and Clive, and suggested to Moore that the recording should be released officially.

Barry " Bazza " McKenzie ( full name: Barrington Bradman Bing McKenzie ) is a fictional character originally created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries ( but suggested by Peter Cook ) for a comic strip, written by Humphries and drawn by New Zealand artist Nicholas Garland, in the British satirical magazine Private Eye.

Cook, had an opportunity of visiting Botany Bay, is the Gentleman who suggested the plan to Government of transporting convicts to that island ”.