On this date

1620 — Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay; he was the first child born of English parents in presentday New England.

1789 — New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1910 — The Mexican Revolution of 1910 had its beginnings under the Plan of San Luis Potosi issued by Francisco I. Madero.

1925 — Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.

1945 — Twenty-two former Nazi officials went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. (Almost a year later, the International Military Tribune sentenced 12 of the defendants to death; seven received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life; three were acquitted.)

1959 — The United Nations issued its Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

1967 — The U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.

1969 — The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout. A group of American Indian activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

1975 — After nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco died, two weeks before his 83rd birthday.

1985 — The first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.

1992 — Fire seriously damaged Windsor Castle, the favorite weekend home of Queen Elizabeth II.

2012 — New Hampshire-based Foss Manufacturing decided to move forward with plans for a new manufacturing facility in Floyd County without the benefit of local bond financing.