On May 20th, 1932 a 34-year-old Amelia Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, Northern Ireland becoming the first woman to achieve a solo transatlantic flight.

In 1952, London was forced to survive five days of choking smog caused by the excessive burning of coal mixed with unfavorable weather patterns.

With no ambitions of space, Valentina Tereshkova was recruited in the first female soviet cosmonaut program. On June 16, 1963 she became the first woman in space.

The age of enlightenment spanned the 17th and 19th centuries with Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau and other thinker-philosophers contributed amazing ideas that changed the world.

The Mary Rose ship, Henry VIII’s treasured ship and Britain’s first dedicated warship was sunk during a naval battle against the French in 1545. The wreckage resurrected in 1982.

The great English train robbery of 1963 when 13 brazen criminals stole away with 2.3 million Pounds Sterling. Robbers Charlie Wilson and Ronnie Biggs would continue their careers in deception.