Today marks the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
Today in 1913 – Arthur Wynne’s "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
Today in 1937 – The animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, premiered to a widely receptive audience. It was the first full-length animated feature to become widely successful within the English-speaking world, the first full-length animated feature with sound, and the first to be filmed in Technicolor. A lot of firsts..
Today in 1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
Celebrating Birthdays today are Thomas Becket, Benjamin Disraeli, Werner von Trapp, Kurt Waldheim, Paul Winchell, Jane Fonda, Frank Zappa, Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Romano, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Brett Scallions.
Celebrating death-iversaries today are Thomas the Apostle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George S. Patton, John Spence, and Amie Comeaux.
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