December 21
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.
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.
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