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Happy birthday Captain Cook!!! Born on this day 292 years ago in (East) Marton. Today is also the Birthplace Museum's 42nd birthday, built a stone's throw away from the site of the humble clay cottage where Scottish born farm labourer James Cook senior and his Thornaby born wife Grace Pace brought second son James into the world . The museum opened its doors in 1978 we look forward to the day when it can reopen to tell the tale of wonder of one of the world's greatest ever navigators but celebrate the peoples, flora and fauna that captivated him and his teams of experts on his three great world voyages.