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December 16 1497 – Vasco da Gama Becomes the First European to Round the Tip of Africa
by Vishul Malik*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Five months after leaving Lisbon, Vasco da Gama made a turn that ensured European trade and the Indian subcontinent would never be the same. As he…