History.com: This Day In History (May 2-1670): King Charles II grants charter to Hudson’s Bay Company

By History.com Editors. King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson’s Bay Company, made up of the group of French explorers who opened the lucrative North American fur trade to London merchants. The charter conferred on them not only a trading monopoly but also effective control over the vast region surrounding

History.com: This Day In History (April 13-1928): First nonstop flight from Europe to North America

By History.com Editors. German pilot Hermann Köhl, Irish aviator James Fitzmaurice and Baron Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld, the expedition’s financier, complete the first Europe-to-North-America transatlantic flight, taking off from Ireland and landing safely on a small Canadian island. The prevailing winds in the North Atlantic blow from North America towards Europe, hastening Eastbound airplanes