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James Cook was born on October 27, 1728 in Marton England. Unlike many of the people at his village school, Cook wasn’t the son of rich or noble parents. Infact, he was the son of a Scottish farm laborer and a Yorkshire girl. Cook began as a farm laborer and grocer’s assistant. He later found employment on the Baltic Sea in a collier, (coal transport ship), at the age of 18. On February 14th 1779, while Cook was in Hawaii, a fight broke out between Cook and his men and an