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Cabrillo Enters San Diego Bay
On September 28, 1542, ships under Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo entered the sheltered waters now known as San Diego Bay. The expedition was sailing for the Spanish Crown, and its surviving account makes this the earliest documented European encounter with the harbor.
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