On December 18, 1620, with the English ship Mayflower
anchored in Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, a small
party of sailors from the vessel went ashore, as its
passengers prepare to begin their new settlement,
Plymouth Colony.

As related in a letter dated the following day, General
George Washington wrote to Congress from his
headquarters in  Trenton, New Jersey, to report that
he had transported much of the Continental Army’s
stores and baggage across the Delaware River to
Pennsylvania on December 2, 1776.      

Most of the troops could not swim, and horses were
also transported. Additionally, eighteen pieces of
artillery had  to cross over the river.       

Washington’s famous crossing of the Delaware would come
less than a month later on December 25th.

On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from
London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy Airport—
and “Beatlemania” arrives.

It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a
British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No.
1 U.S. hit six days before with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
At Kennedy, the “Fab Four”—dressed in mod suits and
sporting their trademark pudding bowl haircuts—were
greeted by 3,000 screaming fans who caused a near riot
when the boys stepped off their plane and onto American
soil.

On December 18, 1620, the English ship Mayflower arrived at
modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers
prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.

On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by
the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and
are then bought by English colonists.

The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marked
the beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North
America.