Honore de Balzac 1799 - Novelist
- 1506 - In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.
- 1520 - Hernando Cortez defeated Spanish troops that had been sent to punish him in Mexico.
- 1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior
- 1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.
- 1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.
- 1932 - Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.
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