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Columbus Lands, Sound Barrier Broken & Battle of Hastings | Oct 12–17
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From Columbus's world-altering landfall in 1492 to Chuck Yeager shattering the sound barrier in 1947, this week in history is packed with civilisation-changing moments. Eight extraordinary events across eight centuries — Hastings, the guillotine, hot air balloons, Disney, Mozart, and more.
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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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