5 August 1620 August 5, 2015 Author: Staff The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first try to reach North America. Famous Words of Inspiration..."It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other." GK Chesterton — Click here for more from GK Chesterton Related posts: 5 August 1620 5 August 1620 5 August 1926 5 August 1957 16 March 1988 18 July 1984 Categories: History Tags: 1620, 5 August