Balboa Spies the Pacific – First European to Reach the Ocean from the New World

A small crew on a Panamanian summit saw an ocean no European had known.

25 September 1513 Darién, Panama

Politics & state

Congress Passes the Bill of Rights – Foundations of American Liberty

On September 25 1789 Congress adopted the draft that became the Bill of Rights

25 September 1789 Washington, D.C., USA

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