Writer's Almanac - On this Day

Writer's Almanac noted the following for today:

"It was on this day in 1522 that one of the five ships that set out with Ferdinand Magellan's expedition returned to Spain, having successfully circumnavigated the globe. Magellan himself had been dead for more than a year. He had landed on an island in the Philippines and converted the local tribe to Christianity, and he had agreed to stay and help them fight an enemy tribe on a nearby island, but he was shot by a poisoned arrow. The remaining two ships had continued on without him, but one tried to sail back across the Pacific, and never made it. The final ship, theVittoria, sailed around Africa and made it to Spain on this day in 1522, with just 18 of the original 237 men who had set sail three years earlier." 

 Who were those guys?  Man, they must have been some kind of men.