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Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay. On this day in 1542, the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America. Cabrillo was not the first to search for a water passage across the North American continent, and he would not be the...
Nobody knows if Cabrillo was from Spain or Portugal. He either worked as a boy for a merchant, a soldier, a sailor, a shipbuilder, a slave owner, or an author before he was an explorer. Possibly, he added Cabrillo to his name because Juan Rodriguez was a very common name. While Cabrillo was still young, Cabrillo joined the Spanish army that won over Cuba. Then, in 1520, he became part of the army that was sent to Mexico by the governor of Cuba.