On This Day in History |
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1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea |
1609 William 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) |
 | Nine sovereigns of Europe meet at the funeral of Edward VII |
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1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty |
1927 At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris, aboard Spirit of St Louis in the 1st solo nonstop transatlantic flight |
1927 Treaty of Jeddah is signed between the United Kingdom and Ibn Saud recognizing the independence of the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the forerunner of Saudi Arabia |
1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends its 1st photographs from space |
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Also James Stewart, Dietrich Mateschitz and Louis Theroux (54). |
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This was a day to remember for Eliza Doolittle, the 'My Fair Lady' of the stage and film musical that won and broke hearts. |
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