Dutch discovery of Tasmania
Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman, who sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) to investigate the practicality of a sea passage eastward to Chile and to explore New Guinea, skirted the southern shores of Tasmania this day in 1642. 1642.
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ratified changes to the country’s legal code that made women equal to men before the law and no longer subject to their husbands. 2001.
A man later known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane shortly after departing from Portland, Oregon, and later parachuted out of the aircraft with the ransom money; despite an extensive manhunt, he was never identified or caught. 1971
Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. 1963.
American inventor Joseph Farwell Glidden patented the first commercially successful barbed wire. 1874.
Charles Darwin‘s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published. 1859.
Katherine Heigl (born November 24, 1978, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American actress known for her work on the television series Grey’s Anatomy and for roles in a series of popular romantic comedies.
Heigl started modeling while a child and eventually appeared in television commercials. In 1992 she made her movie debut in That Night, and minor roles in a series of films followed. After graduating from high school, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She quickly found regular work, including in the comic fantasy Wish upon a Star (1996) and the horror film Bride of Chucky (1998).
