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* 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.

* Constitution Day ( Cook Islands )

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

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The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777.

The Cook Islands contain 15 islands in the group spread over a vast area in the South Pacific.

The main Cook Islands language is Rarotongan Māori.

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 ).

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

The Constitution of the Cook Islands took effect on August 4, 1965, when the Cook Islands became a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

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

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.

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.

She became so ill that Cook sent her back to Brodess, where her mother nursed her back to health.

Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook.

It was commissioned specifically as a vehicle for Moore, but when he invited Peter Cook on as a guest, their comedy partnership was so notable that it became a permanent fixture of the series.

Christianity first came to Tuvalu in 1861 when Elekana, a Christian deacon from Manihiki in the Cook Islands became caught in a storm and drifted for 8 weeks before landing at Nukulaelae.

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.

John was educated at Mount Cook School and Wellington College before being enrolled at Victoria University College, Wellington of the University of New Zealand, which later became an independent university, and where he subsequently spent most of his academic career.

Beaglehole became known internationally for his work on Cook ’ s journals which brought out his great gifts as historian and editor.

Between 1888 and 1912 a dolphin named Pelorus Jack became famous for meeting and escorting ships around the Cook Strait.

In Caen ’ s library he began to read the encyclopédists and the reports of travel of Bougainville, Cook and Anson, and he became deeply passionate about these matters.

After being proclaimed on 20 April 1970 as an Act of Queensland Parliament, The University College of Townsville became James Cook University of North Queensland on 29 April 1970.

Many Roman sarcophagi depict him as a winged boy, very much akin to Cupid: " Eros with crossed legs and torch reversed became the commonest of all symbols for Death ", observes Arthur Bernard Cook.

Punky quickly became friends with Cherie Johnson ( played by Cherie Johnson, the niece of series creator David W. Duclon ), a young girl who lived upstairs in Henry's building with her grandmother, Betty Johnson ( Susie Garrett ), who worked as an RN at the local Cook County Hospital.

Tyonek became a major port during the Resurrection Creek gold rush of the 1880s, but declined after the founding of Anchorage on the other side of Cook Inlet in 1915.

After DuPage County was split from Cook County in 1839, Naper's Settlement became the DuPage county seat, a distinction it held until 1868.

Cook purchased land in what became Eckford Township while Doolittle settled in section 1 of what became Clarendon Township.

Stu Cook had gone from piano to bass guitar and Tom Fogerty became the band's rhythm guitarist.

The crew of Captain James Cook became the first Europeans to sight the peninsula, during Cook's first circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1769, when he named the feature in honour of the Endeavours botanist, Joseph Banks.

After a period working as a schoolteacher in secondary schools, in 1971 Cook became a tutor – organiser of the Workers ' Educational Association for Lothian, and a local councillor in Edinburgh.

* 1991 – Steve Cook, British footballer

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

1888 — Cook Islands are proclaimed a British protectorate and a single federal parliament is established.

* 1957 – Richard Cook, British jazz writer ( d. 2007 )

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using laborers from the Cook Islands and Niue, occupied the island from 1886 to 1891.

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755.

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.

In 1975 the Captain Cook Hotel was built on the former British military base.

* 2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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

* 1808 – Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur ( d. 1892 )

* 1728 – Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer ( d. 1779 )

* 1778 – British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.

* 1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer ( d. 1779 )

The French explored and settled Polynesia, and the British made three voyages with James Cook to the South Pacific and Australia, Hawaii, and the North American Pacific Northwest.