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Facts
1620 103 Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
1891 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts
1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
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
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
Deaths
72 Thomas the Apostle dies in Mylapore, India (according to tradition)
1579 Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1873 Francis Garnier, French explorer, dies at 34
1906 Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58
1937 Frank Kellogg, US Secretary of State and Nobel laureate, dies at 80
1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44
1945 George S. Patton, American WWII general (Sicily, Italy and Normandy) known as "Old Blood & Guts", dies of congestive heart failure at 60
1967 Stuart "Stu" Erwin, American actor (The Stu Erwin Show), dies of heart attack at 64
1992 Stella Adler, US actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90
2000 Alfred J. Gross, American inventor (invented the walkie-talkie), dies at 82
2014 Billie Whitelaw, English actress, dies at 82
Born on this day
1957 Ray Romano, American actor (Everybody Loves Raymond, Ice Age), born in Queens, New York
1977 Emmanuel Macron, President of France (2017-), born in Amiens, France
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Alfred J. Gross
Billie Whitelaw