On this day

• 1620: The 101 Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, captained by Myles Standish.

• 1861: The Post Office Savings Bank was instituted.

• 1908: Car firms Buick and Oldsmobile merged to form General Motors.

• 1946: Have A Go began on the Light Programme, with Wilfred Pickles and his wife as Mabel at the table. Pickles started

each programme by saying, ‘’How do, ’Ow are yer?’’

• 1963: Malaysia became independent – and a mob celebrated by burning down the British embassy. • 1968: The “two-tier’’ postal system was introduced in Britain – First and Second class. • 1977: Opera singer Maria Callas was found dead in her Paris flat, aged 53.