On This Day... Canberra was 'discovered' by explorers in 1820, China abolished the compulsory wearing of pigtails in 1911, Pearl Harbour Naval base was attacked by bombers in 1941, Otis Redding recorded (Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay in 1967, Nintendo Wii home video game console was released in Australia in 2006, Ken Weatherwax, US child actor who played Pugsley in the Addams Family, died aged 59 in 2014, and Greg Lake, the UK musician with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, died aged 69 in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96UgSource: YouTube/OtisRedding