Winter Solstice Date Facts
Laura Lockwood
With the solstice coming up on December 21st,
2018 at 4:23pm CST, some other interesting things have occurred in the past on
December 21st as well, including:
- 1620 – The pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Harbor and founded a society that
would allow them to worship freely.
- 1891 – The first game of basketball, based on rules created by
James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1898 – Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium, ushering in
the atom age.
- 1913 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues)
printed in NY World, created by Arthur Wynne.
- 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 Theater.
- 1968 – Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched
with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders. They were the first to
leave the Earth's orbit and circle the Moon.
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Image is from:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo8.html
Image is from:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/biographical/