Explorer Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, found Dominica and the Kalinago people.
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Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.
The Soviet Union sent a dog into space aboard the spacecraft Sputnik II.
NASA launched the last space probe in the Mariner Program, Mariner 10.
Political activist and French playwright Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
George W Bush secured his second term as President of the United States.
