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It happened on a… December 21

2020

US begins vaccinating for COVID-19 using the Moderna vaccine.

2012

“Gangnam Style” by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube.

1993

“The Sign” single released in the US by Ace of Base (Billboard Song of the Year 1994).

1990

Montreal Machine football team play first CFL game.

1988

270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.

1958

Charles de Gaulle was elected to a seven-year term as the first president of the Fifth Republic of France.

1937

Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature in Hollywood, CA. The movie was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

1934

French film “Zouzou” premieres in Paris, starring Josephine Baker; 1st black woman to star in a major motion picture

1898

French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium.

1879

Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” was first performed in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a revised happy ending.

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