On This Day In History

26th May 1897: Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel Dracula first published

Although not the first ever vampire novel, Dracula was enormously influential in defining modern ideas of vampires, and for forever associating them with Romania. Read More

Tomorrow's historical event

27th May 1199: Coronation of King John in Westminster Abbey

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Lindbergh and Earhart

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

The very first non-stop transatlantic flight had occurred in 1919 when John Alcock and Arthur Whiten Brown flew a modified Vickers Vimy bomber aircraft from Newfoundland to Ireland in just under 16 hours.Read more
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