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Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden.
Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
Died: Sikandar Jah, 3rd Nizam (born 1768).
The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
Born: Al-Hattab, Muslim jurist (died 1547).
Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.