Today Is...Pilgrim's First Attempt To Reach America

The East Midlands got a little less holy today in 1620 as 102 of Nottingham's finest bible carriers, miffed that their demands that England become as fundamentally religiously nutty as them was rebuffed by King James, said right then, your persecuting us so we're off to make our own country and climbed aboard a ship and set sail for the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean to start up a new country.
It didn't go as smoothly as that because their first choice of ship at Plymouth docks was the Oranjebooom but someone noticed it was such an unseaworthy wreck that it would do well to make it out of British waters which they were proved wrong about as it made it to Iceland before sinking days later.
Instead they loaded their bibles and other religious paraphernalia onto the Mayflower and the Speedwell Ship's and shouted onward to the New World but  made it as far as Dartmouth Docks along the coast as the Speedwell began taking on water so all 120 of them piled onto the Mayflower and tried again, Virginia ahoy, not sinking and being eaten by Sharks permitting.
Despite it not occurring to any of the Pilgrims to bring supplies, six weeks of disease, scurvy and stepping in people's sick later they arrived 200 miles away from Virginia but everyone said for crying out loud let us this bloody ship so they landed and one of the very first things they did to celebrate them leaving behind all things English was to name the place they landed Plymouth after the English city where they sailed from.
One doesn't need to wonder what sort of country a bunch of religion fans would possibly come up with because as we know the Pilgrim's went on to survive and develop America into the gun toting cheeseburger gorging nation we know today and poke fun of because of their completely loopy gun laws.