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Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
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Italian explorer and navigator (1454–1512)
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Cádiz
Municipality in Andalusia, Spain
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Lands of the Western Hemisphere
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Day of the year
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