10 Timeline Memories:
1.1620] The Pilgrims are coming, the Pilgrims are coming: The Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth…
2.1898] Glowing in the dark: Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover the radioactive element radium…
3.1913] A nine-letter word for a new puzzle: Crossword — published for the first time in the New York World…
4.1945] “Happy Trails“: General George S. Patton dies in Germany from injuries suffered in a car accident. Patton was 60…
5.1948] I’ll drink to that: Ireland becomes an independent republic…
6.1968] To the moon Alice: Apollo 8 is launched on a mission to orbit the moon…
7.1970] Elvis the drug czar: Richard M. Nixon has a meeting in the Oval Office about fighting drugs with Elvis Presley, who will die from an overdose of drugs…
8.1978] Guilty as charged: Police in Des Plaines (IL) arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr. and begin unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy will be convicted of murdering. Gacy is executed by lethal injection in May, 1994…1996] After two years of denials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich admits violating House ethic rules. He is soon replaced as House Speaker…
9.1988] Terrorism in the sky: 270 are killed when a Pan Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland. A terrorist attack is responsible for one of the worst air tragedies ever…
10.2006] Marine murderers: Four Marines are charged with murder in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians and four Marine officers are accused of failures in investigating and reporting the deaths…For more on December 21:
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