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
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles
Today in Music
1968 Glen Campbell’s album “Wichita Lineman” goes to #1 in the US
Today in Sport
1891 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts
1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
2012 “Gangnam Style” by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
Famous Weddings
1762 British Explorer Captain James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
1886 Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA Juliette Gordon Low (26) weds William Mackay Low in Savannah, Georgia
1947 Actress Estelle Getty (24) weds Arthur Gettleman
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