USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani.

Detailed explanation-2: -San Salvador Island, also called Watlings Island, one of the islands of The Bahamas, in the West Indies. San Salvador is believed by many scholars to be the island of Guanahani, where Christopher Columbus made his first landing in the New World on October 12, 1492.

Detailed explanation-3: -After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island on October 12, 1492, believing he has reached East Asia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first European to sight Cuba was the guy from Genoa, Christopher Columbus, on this day in 1492 during his first voyage to the New World, naming the island Juana. There were two distinct tribes inhabiting this island at the time.