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28.9.07

California is Discovered





On This Day

San Diego, California

1542:

California discovered.

Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, known as the discoverer of California, landed this day in 1542 near what is now San Diego and became the first European to set foot on the west coast of what would become the United States.

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