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Headline: This Day in History: Columbus Reaches the New World
Caption: October 12, 1492. After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, the Italian explorer saw a Bahamian island, believing he had reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day — on what was probably Watling Island in the Bahamas — and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.
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