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Nov 14, 1001
Leif Ericson explores North America
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Nov 14, 1265
Marco Polo begins his exploration of China and Asia
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Nov 14, 1432
Portuguese navigators discovered the Azores
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Nov 14, 1470
Portuguese begin African exploration
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Nov 14, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias of Portugal sails from the Iberian Peninsula to the south of Africa.
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Nov 14, 1492
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
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Nov 14, 1500
Vicente Pinzon and Juan Dias de Solis discover Brazil
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Nov 14, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan is the first to go around the world
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Nov 14, 1533
Sebastian de Benalcazar explores Ecuador
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Nov 14, 1540
Discovery of the Grand Canyon by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas
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Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
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Captain James Cook discovers New Zealand
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George Vancouver explores Canada
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Territory
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen becomes the first person to see the Antarctic continent
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Dr. David Livingstone explores Africa
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Adrien de Gerlache explores Antarctica
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Roald Amundsen first on the South Pole followed by Robert F. Scott, Edward Wilson, Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates
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Yuri Gagarin becomes the first Man in Space
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Moon Landing Neil Armstrong commander of the Apollo 11 mission, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin while their teammate Michael Collins controlled the command module Columbia.
