Meet Charles, King of Navarre (1332 – 1387), also known as Charles the Bad. Because he tried, unsuccessfully, to conquer both France and Spain, the French called him Charles Le Mauvais, and the Spanish, Carlos el Malo.
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On this date in 1785, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries became the first humans to fly in a hot air balloon across the English Channel. To avoid falling into the sea, they had to dump everything they could overboard, including most of their clothing. The two freezing balloonists made it safely to the other side.