In 1840 William Hobson, appointed Britain’s consul to New Zealand in 1839, proclaimed British sovereignty over all of New Zealand in 1894 the Manchester Ship Canal was officially opened by Queen Victoria. However, by June 1 Allied troops had been forced to evacuate the island. In addition, there were four dozen California marigolds for Queen Mary in 1941 German paratroops began Operation Merkur (Mercury) to invade Crete, suffering heavy losses. It took 33 hours and 30 minutes to complete the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic by a woman in 1939 Pan-American Airways began its transatlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from New York to France. The only gold medal to be awarded before the First World War was for a rock garden in 1927 Charles Lindbergh set off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, flying the Spirit of St Louis aircraft to Paris. In 1910 nine sovereigns, all related to the late king, attended King Edward VII’s funeral at Windsor in 1913 the first RHS Chelsea Flower Show opened - called the Great Spring Show, it was a three-day event and was attended by Queen Alexandra with two of her children.
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