Historical Events
- 1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts [OS: Dec 11] [some sources disagree, and OS/NS adds to confusion, could be +/- several days]
- 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 "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
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?
Roger Williams
Walter Hagen
Frank Zappa
Jane Fonda
Chris Evert
Emmanuel MacronFamous 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
Famous Divorces
- 1945 American "For Whom The Bell Tolls" novelist Ernest Hemingway (46) and American novelist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (36) divorce after 5 years of marriage.
- 2010 "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (51) divorces actress Georgina Sutcliffe (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage
More Weddings & Divorces
Frank Kellogg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George S. Patton
Jack Hobbs
Marc Connelly
Al GrossArticles, Photos and Quiz
'Good Sport' in The Trenches
Prime Minister's son, Raymond Asquith tells his wife of life and death on the battlefront in World War I on this day in 1915.
December 21, 1915
Elvis Meets Nixon
Richad Nixon meets Elvis Presley at the White House, December 21, 1970
December 21, 1970
Lockerbie Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
The remains of the forward section of the Pan Am Boeing 747 named Clipper Maid of the Seas on Tundergarth Hill near Lockerbie
December 21, 1988
Weekly Quiz for December 16 - 22
What is the world's most performed ballet? Who discovered radium in 1898? Which new currency launched in 1995?
