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Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Praia Peninsula in present-day Venezuela. Thinking it an island, he christened it Ila Santa and claimed it for Spain.*Columbus didn't “discover” America — he never set foot in North America. During four separate trips that started with the one in 1492, Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola. He also explored the Central and South American coasts
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