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1513: Pacific Ocean sighted by Balboa.On this day (or two days later) in 1513, Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, standing “silent, upon a peak in Darién,” on the Isthmus of Panama, became the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean.More events on this day1970:Hostilities came to an end during Black September, the brief but violent civil war between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Jordan. |
1962:Sonny Liston became world heavyweight boxing champion with a first-round knockout of Floyd Patterson in Chicago. |
1799:André Masséna, French nobleman and general under Napoleon, defeated Russian forces in the Second Battle of Zürich. |
1777:Philadelphia, then the American capital, was occupied by British forces during the American Revolution. |
1066:Tostig, earl of Northumbria, and Harald III, king of Norway, were killed in an attempt to depose Tostig's brother, King Harold II of England. |
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