Today's Fact

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Thursday, September 16, 2004
MAYFLOWER DAY


Do you stick your nose up in the air and say that your ancestors came over on the Mayflower? If so, you of staunchly English pedigree should know that on this day, in the year 1620, 102 passengers and crew set sail on the ocean blue from Plymouth, England.
Their destination was the New World. And, although they encountered stormy weather and treacherous seas, this hearty group of 41 men, the rest, women and children; half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs, made it to Provincetown, Massachusetts on November 21, 1620.

A month later, the Plymouth Colony was founded by the passengers of the Mayflower. Better check that family tree ...