![]() On May 30, 132 people died when panic descended on spectators when disaster struck a celebratory fireworks display after a gust of wind blew rockets into the crowd in 1836 the poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe, 27, married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old first cousin in 1919 the aviator Albert Cushing Read and his crew of five left Newfoundland for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight, on the NC-4 flying boat. ![]() Boswell began recording in his diaries what would become the Life of Johnson (1791), later reflecting that “I had the happiness to obtain the acquaintance of that extraordinary man whose memoirs I am now writing an acquaintance which I shall ever esteem as one of the most fortunate circumstances in my life” in 1770 Marie Antoinette, aged 14, married 15-year-old Dauphin Louis, the future King Louis XVI of France. In 1763 the first meeting of the distinguished writer Samuel Johnson and his future biographer James Bowell took place, unexpectedly, in a mutual friend’s home.
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