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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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