Almanac of Absurdities 12/21

On this date in 1620, the Mayflower Lands somewhere near Plymouth Massachusetts. The whole “Plymouth Rock” thing came up for the first time 121 years later. On this day in 1970, Elvis Presley manages to talk his way into the Oval Office for a chat with President Richard Nixon, in which he is deputized in the “War on Drugs.” Birthdays: Thomas Becket, Disney’s Snow White, and gone, but never forgotten, Frank Zappa.