7 Important Interesting Items That Occurred on December 21

7 Important Interesting Items That Occurred on December 21

By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose

One of the pastimes I enjoy is learning new facts and interesting pieces of history.

Sometimes I come across intriguing stories while reading our local San Jose Mercury News, Mental Floss or  Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at The History Place, Brainy Historyor National Geographic Society. Today’s collection of facts was found at DatesinHistory.com.

While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with selling homes in Palo Alto, San Jose or Cupertino, they just add fun and fascination to life.

Here are today’s 7 curious facts about this exact date in history, December 21st. I hope you find them interesting, too.

December 21

What happened on December 21

• December 21, 1620 "Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts." 
• December 21, 1861 "Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor, the Nation's highest award, for Naval personnel," which is signed into  law by President Abraham Lincoln. 
• December 21, 1891 18 students play first basketball game (Springfield College) 
• December 21, 1898 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium 
• December 21, 1913 "Arthur Wynne's ""word-cross"", the first crossword puzzle, featuring a total of 32 clues, is published in the New York World.
• December 21, 1937 Snow White the first feature-length color and sound cartoon premiers at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. 
• December 21, 1970 Elvis Presley meets with President Richard Nixon to discuss the war on drugs. 

Thank you for reading. You may want to read my blog at www.activerain.com/results for more fun facts on history, real estate, home, life and other topics.