1620 Mayflower Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium.
1872 Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days".
1941 German submarine U-567 sinks.
1988 Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by a terrorist bomb killing all 258 on board over Scotland.
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