1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore at in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium.
1968 Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders.
1988 Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air, over Scotland; kills all 259 passengers and crew on board, and 11 people on the ground [1].
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States.
More Historical Events
Dec 21 in Film & TV
1937 The first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Dec 21 in Music
1968 Glen Campbell’s album “Wichita Lineman” goes to #1 in the US.
Dec 21 in Sport
1891 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Did You Know?
1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
Would You Believe?
2012 “Gangnam Style” by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
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