Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall
- 1620 – The Mayflower (pictured) Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, establishing the Plymouth Colony.
- 1879 – A Doll's House, a controversial play by Henrik Ibsen that challenged 19th-century marriage norms, premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1910 – In the second worst mining accident in England, an underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit killed 344 people.
- 1965 – The United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which 87 member nations have since signed.
- 1988 – A total of 270 people were killed when a bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 exploded while the plane was in flight over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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