Tuesday, the Dow gained 91.56 points (0.46%) to finish at 19,974.62, the NASDAQ closed 26.50 points (0.49%) higher at 5,483.94, and the S&P 500 was up 8.23 points (0.36%) at 2,270.76. The Russell 2000 increased 12.27 points (0.89%) to 1,383.95, and the Wilshire 5000 climbed 156.01 points (0.66%) to 23,756.34.

On the NYSE, 3.1 billion shares changed hands, and on the NASDAQ, 2.9 billion shares traded, with a 1.8 to 1 ratio of advancing issues to declining issues on both exchanges.

ON THIS DATE: In 1620, the “Mayflower” and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. In 1898, scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium. In 1913, Arthur Wynne published a new “word-cross” puzzle in the “New York World” in England. The name was later changed to “crossword.” In 1937, Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature in Hollywood—”Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” In 1945, U.S. General George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident. In 1951, Joe DiMaggio announced his retirement from major league baseball. In 1968, Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. In 1991, 11 of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 1998, the first vaccine for Lyme disease was approved.

WEDNESDAY WISDOM: “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”—Douglas Adams, writer and humorist