Five days in history spanning five centuries: Columbus leaves Spain, Jesse Owens stuns Berlin, Anne Frank is arrested, the atomic bomb falls on Hiroshima, and Bertha Benz takes the world's first long road trip. This week in history has never been busier.
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On October twelfth, fourteen ninety-two, somewhere in the chain of islands now known as the Bahamas, a lookout aboard one of Christopher Columbus's three ships spotted land. Columbus had sailed west from Spain convinced he could reach Asia that way.
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