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1. After an ocean crossing of several months, Ferdinand Magellan's fleet dropped anchor (1521)
2. Dutch explorers Schouten and Le Maire moored at one of the Friendly Islands (1616)
3. HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, reached what he first named Stingrays Harbour (1770)
4. Antelope, a British East India Company packet, shipwrecked off Ulong (1783)
5. Women got the vote (1893)
6. Amelia Earhart departed on what proved to be her last flight (1937)
7. Lt (jg) John F. Kennedy led crew members ashore after PT 109 was sunk (1943)
8. Issued stamp commemorating its only Victoria Cross recipient of WWII (1969)
9. Coconut War failed to deter plans for independence (1980)
10. Potentially lucrative country code assigned (1995)
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