1. Charles Lindbergh was working as a pilot for the Chicago St Louis airline company when he made the first non-stop flight around the world in 1927.2. Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 after a man had shot him.3. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident while he was working at St Mary\'s Hospital in London.4. After the painter Degas had went blind in the late 1890s, he gave up painting.5. Ernest Hemingway got many of his ideas for For Whom the Bell Tolls while he lived in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.6. Ferdinand von Zeppelin hadn`not build his famous airship until 1899 when he was sixty-one.