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Today in history

1620: Pilgrims aboard the “Mayflower” went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.

1898: Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.

1948: The state of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State) declared its independence.

1954: Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, and was sentenced to life in prison. (Sheppard spent 10 years in prison before the Supreme Court overturned the verdict; he was acquitted at retrial in 1966 and died four years later.)

1978: Police in Des Plaines, Ill., arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of murdering.

1988: 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.

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