Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Columbus, Christophorus

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

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		Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain Christophorus Columbus 3 August 1492 (x) sails off on the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina on his way to discover America in Palos de la Frontera, Spain. 12 October 1492 (x) discovers and lands on the first land in the New World and calls it San Salvador in Guanahani, Bahamas. 20 May 1509 (-) dies of Reiter's syndrome in Valladolid, Spain.
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