| On this date in: |
| 1620 | Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass. |
| 1879 | Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia. |
| 1898 | Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium. |
| 1913 | The first crossword puzzle was published, in the New York World. |
| 1937 | The Disney animated feature film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" had its world premiere in Los Angeles. |
| 1948 | Ireland became an independent republic. |
| 1958 | Charles de Gaulle was elected the first president of France's Fifth Republic. |
| 1968 | Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. |
| 1970 | Elvis Presley met with President Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss fighting drugs. |
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| 1971 | The U.N. Security Council chose Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as secretary-general. |
| 1978 | Police in Des Plaines, Ill., arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys he was later convicted of murdering. |
| 1991 | Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| 1995 | The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control. |
| 1996 | After two years of denials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules. |
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