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1789 “The Mutiny on the Bounty”’ as Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against his commanding officer William Bligh the HMS
Bounty, placing Bligh and some of his crew adrift on an open boat.
1887 The first automobile race was won by French engineer Georges Bouton, the only entrant. The race was a distance of about 1.2 miles in a steam-powered vehicle.
1932 British physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton announced they had split an atom using a particle accelerator. This was the first split of the nucleus in a fully controlled manner.