June 11

No, I thought you were watching where we were going. On the 11th in 1770, while on his third pacific voyage, Captain James Cook ran aground on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. He took it in his stride however and, after repairs, continued on with the journey. Cook apparently wasn’t a big fan of paying attention to the little details of his voyages of discovery because in 1778 he didn’t quite keep a close enough watch on the indigenous people of the big island of Hawaii and one of them snuck up on Cook and, while his back was turned and, killed him. It is presumed that the Hawaiians ate the venerable Captain Cook. How rude can you get?