1941 Event Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck 1806 Event Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado) 1805 Event Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean 1792 Event British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier, Washington 1778 Event Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state 1778 Event Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay 1644 Death William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24 1524 Event Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas 1494 Event On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica 1492 Event Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas) 1492 Event Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
