1778: Captain Cook discovered Hawaii.

1788: A penal settlement was established in Botany Bay, Australia.

1879: The first England-Wales football international was played at Kennington Oval in London, England winning 2-1.

1882: AA Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, was born in St John's Wood, London.

1912: British explorer Captain Scott, pictured, reached the South Pole -- only to find the Norwegian Amundsen had arrived 35 days earlier.

1933: The "bodyline bowling" row flared up in an Australian v England Test match in Adelaide.

1977: In the worst rail disaster in Australian history, 82 people died when a Sydney-bound train was derailed.

1992: Faced with a new outbreak of terrorism, the Government decided to send more troops to Northern Ireland.

On this day last year: Tens of thousands of people fled Goma in eastern Congo after a volcano erupted, sending rivers of burning lava flowing through the town centre and into Lake Kivu.

DR DAVID Bellamy, botanist, 70; John Boorman, film director, 70; Raymond Briggs, children's author and illustrator, 69; John Hume, politician, 66; Paul Freeman, actor, 61; Paul Keating, former Australian prime minister, 59; Sir Rocco Forte, hotelier, 58; John Hughes, film director, 53; Kevin Costner, actor, pictured48; Peter Beardsley, former footballer, 42; Jane Horrocks, actress, 39; Richard Dunwoody, jockey, 38.