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1493: Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
Columbus heads home from the New World, Martin Luther King Jr. is born, the first Super Bowl is played, and Capt. Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger becomes a hero, all on this day.
Both Americans who were treated for the Ebola virus have been discharged from a hospital.