On This Day in History |
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1891 First game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium. |
1968 First manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders aboard Apollo 8. |
 | Remains of the forward section of the Pan Am Boeing 747 named Clipper Maid of the Seas on Tundergarth Hill near Lockerbie |
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1988 A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air over Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew on board and 11 people on the ground |
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
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Also Samuel L. Jackson (76) and Chris Evert (70) |
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Prime Minister's son, Raymond Asquith tells his wife of life and death on the battlefront in World War I on this day in 1915. |
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