James Cook11 July 1776
Returns to Hawaii from the North West Passage & killed in a scuffle with the Islanders
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Returns to Hawaii from the North West Passage & killed in a scuffle with the Islanders
Stabbed to death by the natives of Kealakekua Bay in the Hawaiian Islands
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