On This Day - December 21, A Shot of History

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1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB32_DWEUq8

1898 – Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover the radioactive element radium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium#Discovery
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_et_Pierre_Curie.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_and_Marie_Curie_at_work.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSxqOyyCZA

1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3PdY-lmMsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iT_CVzT5rQ

1948 – Samuel L. Jackson is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crR6pBGMZ90

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet