During his fourth and final voyage, Christopher Columbus arrived in Costa Rica.
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The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London, opened.
Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tebogo were admitted to the United Nations.
The US spacecraft, Voyager, took the first-ever photograph of the moon and Earth together from space.
Tiffany & Co was founded by Charles Tiffany and John Young in Brooklyn, Connecticut.
The New York Times published its first issue.
