A bit of December 21st history…
1891 - 1st game of basketball, based on the rules created by James Naismith, played in Springfield, Massachusetts
1898 - French scientists, Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
1934 - French film “Zouzou” premiers; stars Josephine Baker - 1st black woman to star in a major motion picture
1937 - 1st full length animated feature film and the earliest in the Disney Animated Classics, “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs” premiers
1968 - Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched
1970 - Elvis Presley meets President Nixon in the White House - the image of this meeting is most requested photo from the entire National Archives
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
2012 - “Gangnam Style” by Psy becomes 1st video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube
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