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On this day - 1709 (Robinson Crusoe); February 1st
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Friday, February 1, 1709. : The "real" Robinson Crusoe is rescued by English explorer William Dampier


Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe and first published on 25 April 1719. It is about an English castaway who has to survive for 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before being rescued, on 19 December 1686. The story is unique in that it is written in autobiographical style, seeming to give an account of actual events. This style of writing was not common in the 18th century.

"Robinson Crusoe" is believed to have been based on the true story of Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who lived for four years on the remote Pacific island of Más a Tierra, although in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island. Selkirk was rescued from his remote island on 1 February 1709, by Captain Woodes Rogers and English explorer William Dampier, who had become the first Englishman to visit Australia in the late 1600s.

Interestingly, it was on this journey that Dampier was introduced to numerous new words, now common in the Engish language. Such words included breadfruit, barbeque, cashew, avocado, chopsticks, sea-breeze, sea-lion, settlement, soy sauce and tortilla.


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