PAST FORWARD: MARCH 16, 1521

March 16, 2021

"500 years ago, on March 16, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan sighted Zamal, an island which has very lofty mountains, the present Samar Island. On the following day, Magellan and his men landed on Homonhon, a little uninhabited island South of Samar then and now, a barangay in Guiuan, Eastern Samar." (The Kahimyang Project)