1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea
1609 Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe
1862 US Homestead Act becomes law which provides cheap land for the settlement of the American West
1864 Spotsylvania campaign in US Civil War ends after 10,920 killed or injured
1927 At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris, aboard Spirit of St Louis (1st non-stop flight)
1927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain in the Treaty of Jeddah
1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends its 1st photographs from space
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