1539 Hernando de Soto claimed Florida for Spain. Been to Miami and Orlando for conferences. Kate has been to visit Gwen, too.
1748 Amsterdam began the first municipal postal service. Been there many times.
1769 Tahiti. Lieutenant James Cook observed the transit of Venus in a tent. Afterwards, he continued to search for Terra Australis Incognita. Stopped there en route to Australia for the first time in January 1974.
1923 Rome. The Italian government of Benito Mussolini enfranchised women. to Il Duce made the announcement at a world conference on female suffrage held in Rome. Pictured below are members of the Australian delegation to the confab.
1965 Space. One hundred and twenty miles above Earth, Ed White stepped out of Gemini IV for the first American spacewalk for twenty minutes. Gemini missions developed techniques for rendezvous and docking used in later Apollo missions.
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