Also on this day: Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, sign a compact calling for a “body politick.” Former slave Nat Turner, who led a violent insurrection, is executed in Jerusalem, Va.President William Howard Taft accepts the recommendation of a joint Army-Navy board that Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands be made the principal U.S.
naval station in the Pacific. American troops cheer after hearing the news that the Armistice has been signed, ending World War I in Nov.
1918.They are located on the front northeast of St. Mihiel, France. Similar celebrations took place all along the line where the Americans were engaged in an offensive.
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