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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.
William Faulkner
American author
born
September 25, 1897
New Albany, Mississippi
(Born on this day)
died
July 6, 1962 (aged 64)
Byhalia, Mississippi
