On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7.

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In 1680, Pueblo Indians launched a successful revolt against Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico.

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In 1494, during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica.

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In 1846, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.