Today in Geek History – December 21

Today in Geek History - December 21

Geeky tidbits that we find interesting and hope you will too.

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1872 – Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
1891 – first game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts
1898 – French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
1913 – Arthur Wynne’s “word-cross”, the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1914 – first feature-length silent film comedy “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” released starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
1933 – Fox Films signs Shirley Temple aged 5, to a studio contract
1934 – French film “Zouzou” premieres in Paris, starring Josephine Baker; 1st black woman to star in a major motion picture
1937 – “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1949 – “Samson and Delilah”, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York

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