This Day in History:
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Ferdinand Magellan, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
On this day in 1520, explorer Ferdinand Magellan and three Spanish ships entered the strait later named for him, sailing between the mainland tip of South America and the island of Tierra del Fuego toward the Pacific Ocean.
Today's Birthday:
Born this day in 1917, Dizzy Gillespie, an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, helped to found the modern jazz style known as bebop, but his improvisations also influenced later jazz trumpeters such as Miles Davis.
Dizzy Gillespie, 1955