George Harrison Receives Radiation Treatment. Former Beatle George Harrison is undergoing radiation to treat a brain tumor, but experts say it won't stop the spread of cancer from his lungs. Earlier in the year Harrison had a tumor removed from his lung in the United States, and more recently received radiation therapy in Switzerland for a brain tumor.
Captain James Cook James Cook was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire on 27 October 1728 (7 November in the Gregorian calendar), one of five children of Scottish migrant farm labourer James Cook and his Yorkshire wife Grace.
Occupation: Explorer, Cartographer. Nationality: England Executive summary: Explorer of the South Pacific. Military service: Royal Navy (Seven Years War) English naval captain and explorer, born on the 27th of October 1728 at Marton village, Cleveland, Yorkshire, where his father was first an agricultural laborer and then a farm bailiff. At twelve years of age he was apprenticed to a haberdasher at Staithes, near Whitby, and afterwards to Messrs. Walker, shipowners, of Whitby, whom he served for years in the Norway, Baltic and Newcastle trades.