1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea
1506 – In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.
1609 Shakespeare’s Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1830 – The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.
1873 – Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
1932 – Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.
1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends its 1st photographs from space
By: Archa Dave
