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Days before years

1488 - Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming 1st known European to sail round Cape of Good Hope
1612 - German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1832 – Alexander Gustaf Eifel was born.
1905 - The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
1970 - Venera 7; successfully lands on Venus - it is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
International Tea Day