Today’s Significant Events
1620 – 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock [OS=Dec 11]
1898 – Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
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
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