Important Events

1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore at in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts [OS=Dec 11]
1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
1988 Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by a terrorist bomb killing all 258 on board over Scotland
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States

Today 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

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