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Christopher Columbus lands in Japan - or so he thought, Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean, the first and oldest university in the new world is established, Harvard was, too, nearly 100 years later, Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels" - and today's birthday club includes Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Held, and Susan Harris - with a reading from "The Picture of Dorian Gray," by Oscar Wilde.