Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili) 1879 - Georgian Marxist revolutionary and later dictator of USSR (1928-53)
- 1620 - The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, MA.
- 1898 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
- 1913 - Arthur Wynne published a new "word-cross" puzzle in the "New York World" in England. The name was later changed to "crossword."
- 1978 - Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested democrat John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing.
- 1988 - 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.
- 1991 - Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- 1998 - A Chinese court sentenced two dissidents to long prison terms for attempting to organize an opposition party. A third man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on December 22, 1998.
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