This Day in History
On this date in 1620, English colonists aboard the Mayflower set sail for America, where they founded Plymouth, Massachusetts, after 41 men, including William Bradford and Myles Standish, signed the Mayflower Compact.
More events on this day
1998: The Basque separatist organization ETA announced an indefinite cease-fire after 30 years of terrorist guerrilla attacks in Spain that were blamed for 800 deaths; the peace lasted 14 months.
1978: Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq was proclaimed president of Pakistan.
1977: American operatic soprano Maria Callas died in Paris.
1975: Papua New Guinea achieved full independence from Australia.
1970: King Hussein of Jordan declared martial law following the hijacking of four international airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
1919: The U.S. Congress granted a national charter to the American Legion, an organization of U.S. war veterans.
1810: A local revolt in Mexico was sparked by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a parish priest in Dolores, who uttered the Grito de Dolores (“Cry of Dolores”), calling for the end of rule by Spanish peninsulars, for equality of races, and for redistribution of land.
1380: Charles V, who was king of France from 1364 and led the country in a miraculous recovery from the devastation of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453), died. |
