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Sights
1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck

1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)

1805 Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean

1792 British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt. Rainier, Washington

1778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state

1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay

1644 William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24

1524 Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas

1494 On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica

1492 Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)

1492 Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early



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