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 President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres by 1900) 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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