From Shakespeare's Globe burning to the ground to Einstein quietly mailing the theory of special relativity, this week in history is packed with world-changing moments. Plus: the Tunguska explosion, the first Tour de France, the Civil Rights Act, and the birth of Canada.
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On August tenth, fifteen nineteen, in Seville, Spain, Ferdinand Magellan led five ships out of port and into the unknown, pointing their bows toward a route that no European fleet had ever completed. The goal was to circumnavigate the entire globe.
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