On this day in 1620, Pilgrims on the Mayflower came ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
On this day in 1817, Governor Lachlan Macquarie formally adopted the name "Australia" for the British colony located on the continent with the same present-day name.
On this day in 1898, Scientists Pierre Curie and Marie Curie discovered radium.
And on this day in 1935, Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" premiered in the United States.