Monday, December 21, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

DECEMBER 21


1988:A bomb explodes aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 above Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.

1913: Arthur Wynne publishes the first crossword puzzle in the New York World, sparking a puzzle frenzy that lasts to this day.

1970: Elvis Presley gives President Richard Nixon a Colt 45 pistol and family photos during a meeting between the two in the Oval Office.

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