In fourteen hundred and ninety-two

Columbus sailed the ocean blue! 

Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, along with a crew of 90 and three ships – the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria – he landed on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas

He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India

Most people in Spanish-speaking countries and the Americas are still pretty much attached to Columbus, as they continue to celebrate this day as a holiday in his honor

1997

John Denver died of blunt force trauma when his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, near Monterey Bay, California  

Witnesses said the plane, made of fiberglass with a single engine and two seats, was flying about at about 500 feet when it just sort of dropped unexpectedly into the ocean. When it hit the water it broke into numerous parts

Denver, age 53 and the only occupant of the plane, was killed

1999

Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain died at his Los Angeles home

 In 63 short years on this planet, Wilt Chamberlain nailed over 20,000 women

-Tyler Jackson

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