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=== [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/{{#time:F j}}|Today's OTD]] ===
" Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas." He set sail to find a shortcut towards India . . . . that the two Americas lay in his way was a lucky find, as he would have never been able to navigate the whole of the Atlantic and Pacific. Ciao [[User:Pentaclebreaker|Pentaclebreaker]] ([[User talk:Pentaclebreaker|talk]]) 06:34, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
According to [[Amerigo Vespucci]], cartographer Martin Waldseemüller applied the Latinized form "America" to a map showing the New World for the first time in 1507, i.e. 15 years after Columbus's voyage. – [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca|talk]]) 12:39, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
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