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1620 – The Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower landed at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, to establish the Plymouth Colony.
1963 – An attempt by Greek Cypriot police to search certain Turkish Cypriot women in Nicosia escalated into island-wide violence, leading to 538 deaths and the displacement of nearly 27,000 people.
1968 – Apollo 8 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a trajectory to the Moon; its crew (pictured) became the first humans to visit another celestial body.
1988 – A bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 detonated over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
2018 – Operatives of the British Special Boat Service boarded the container ship Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary to detain four stowaways who had threatened the crew.

Sun Sheng (d. 956)
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Bush speaking at the Islamic Center of Washington

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... that the fortune left by Zhu Baosan was believed to have been greatly diminished by his philanthropic activities?
... that less than a day after his dad died, Brett Favre played in "one of the greatest games of his fabulous career"?
... that a museum of tomato processing in Greece uses holographic mechanical fans to display images of workers?
... that Shelley Luther was elected to the Texas House of Representatives four years after being imprisoned?
... that the main cemetery of Mainz was established in 1803 and became the model for the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris?
... that David Green published more than 200 research papers before his 18th birthday?

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