On this day:
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, becoming the first European to reach India by sea
1777 Vermont abolishes slavery, the first region in US to do so
2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched for the last time
Born on this day:
1914 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1973 Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Indian founder and CEO of mobile payments company Paytm, born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Gone on this day:
1695 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist
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