HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
CONSTURCTION OF PLYMOUTH SETTLEMENT
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.
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
WW II HERO DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1945
General George S. Patton Jr., an American World War II
hero famed for his battlefield brilliance, unvarnished view
of combat and volatile personality, died in Heidelberg,
Germany, on this day in history, Dec. 21, 1945. He was
60 years old.
Patton was paralyzed in an auto accident on Dec. 9. "Old
Blood and Guts" died in the hospital of a blood clot in his
heart.
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