This Day in History: December 21, 2024
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1620
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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1891
The first basketball game, invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by James E. Naismith, was played.
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1898
Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
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1913
The first crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World.
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1937
Disney's Snow White, the first feature length color and sound cartoon, premiered.
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1970
Elvis Presley met with president Richard Nixon in the White House.
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1988
A terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
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1991
Eleven of the former Soviet republics form the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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1995
Palestinians took over the control of the city of Bethlehem.
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