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Today in History: Columbus sets sail to discover India, reaches America

New Delhi: Born  in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, Christopher Columbus was one of the most famous explorers of all time.  Columbus' birth place Genoa was a great Italian port, and Columbus grew up surrounded by



On October 12, ironically also a Friday, the Pintafired a cannon indicating that land had been sighted and in the early hours of the morning Columbus and his crew made landfall on what he quickly named San Salvador.





The explorers immediately encountered native inhabitants that Columbus called “Indians,” firmly believing that he had reached the Indies as planned .




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