In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - on a voyage that would take him to the New World.
In 1914, Germany declared war on France at the outset of World War I.
In 1921, baseball commissioner Kenewaw Landis refused to reinstate the former Chicago White Sox players implicated in the Black Sox scandal, despite their acquittals in a jury trial.
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Author Leon Uris (1923)
Singer Tony Bennett (1925)
Actor Martin Sheen (1940)
Movie director John Landis (1950)
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"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."