- Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernán Cortés lands on the coast of Mexico.
1518
- Cortés meets with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II, who allows the Spanish to trade with the Aztecs.
1519-1520
- Cortés and his Spanish allies launch an attack on the Aztecs, culminating in the Spanish capture of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.
1521
- The Aztecs are defeated and Moctezuma II is killed. The Spanish establish control over the Aztec Empire.
The North American X-15 was a rocket-powered, manned, experimental aircraft that flew at a speed of 7,274 kilometers per hour in 1967, reaching the limits of space at an altitude of 108,000 m. A total of 199 flights were made by 12 different pilots.
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