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Today in History: October 12

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Description: History and images related to Columbus Day. From the Library of Congress.
Photoreproduction from Theodor de Bry and Charles de la Roncière, La Floride Française: Scènes de la vie Indiennes, peintes en 1564 [facsimile of the 1564 original (Paris, 1928)]. sighted land, beginning a new era of European exploration and expansion. The next day, the ninety crewmembers of Columbus' three-ship fleet ventured onto the Bahamian island that he named San Salvador (now Watling Island, and then called Guanahaní by the natives), ending a voyage begun nearly
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