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Jane Seymour Fonda is 86 years young today.
The actress and activist Jane Fonda is the recipient of
various accolades, including two Academy Awards,
two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden
Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI
Life Achievement Award, the Honorary Palme d’Or,
and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
1980
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 September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth,
England, bound for the Americas with 102 passengers. The
ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists—half
religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs—had been
authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy
weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off
course, and on November 21 the “Pilgrims” reached
Massachusetts, where they founded the first permanent
European settlement in New England in late December.
One this day in 1620, one week after the Mayflower was anchored
at Plymouth harbor in present-day Massachusetts, construction
of the first permanent European settlement in New England began.
These dwellings would shelter them through their difficult first
winter in America.
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Apollo 8 crew (from left) Frank Borman, William Anders, and James Lovell.
