1620: The Mayflower and Plymouth Harbor

On this day in 1620, the Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.   Shortly after, the men, women and children started the new settlement of Plymouth Colony.

As we know now, the first winter was horrible and many died.   

Before coming ashore, they signed The Mayflower Compact.  

Eventually, many more came.  In 1691, Plymouth was incorporated into the new Massachusetts Bay Association.

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1915: President Wilson married Edith Galt

We remember President Wilson for World War I and for many more things.   He was elected in 1912 and reelected in 1916.

He also married Edith Galt on this day in 1915 after his first wife Ellen died in 1914.  

First Lady Edith Wilson became a controversial figure for her role after President Wilson suffered a stroke.  

No one really knows for sure whether Mrs. Wilson "ran the country" as some have suggested.    

Many people have written that Mrs. Wilson turned into an acting president, or the person who handled all of the president's documents, and apparently, made decisions for him.

We don't know for sure.   We do know that President Wilson was disabled and that The League of Nations died in the US Senate.    

Mr. Wilson died in 1924 and Mrs. Wilson in 1961.

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