1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India 1926 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswaldwhile riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas 1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University 2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany | 
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