ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD

On This Day in Weird, March 27...

1513: Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Léon "discovers" Florida and starts another round of "New World" genocide while seeking the mythical Fountain of Youth. Natives fatally wound him eight years later, during a second campaign of enslavement and exploitation, but not before he founds future America's oldest recognized city at San Augustine, site of two religious massacres in 1565 and of white-on-black race riots 100 years later.