The SNARKY most shocking events that took place on December 21

In this video, we're taking a look at some of the most shocking events that took place on December 21. From plane crashes to Rocket Launches, these events have had a massive impact on history.

1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts [OS: Dec 11] [some sources disagree, and OS/NS adds to confusion, could be +/- several days]
1784 John Jay becomes acting US Secretary of State (1789-90)
1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1864 US Union General Sherman captures Savannah, Georgia, which surrenders to him, at the end of his March To the Sea Campaign
1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1919 J. Edgar Hoover persuades US to deport 250 alien radicals, including anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman and her husband to Russia
1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
1929 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
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 first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles
1956 Montgomery bus boycott ends: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, E. D. Nixon, and Glenn Smiley ride in new integrated bus after Supreme Court rules segregated buses unconditional
1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1968 NASA Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders
1969 Vince Lombardi (Washington Redskins) coaches his last football game, a 20-10 loss to the Cowboys in Dallas, for a 7-5-2 season and 105-35-6 career
1970 Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House - the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives
1978 Police in Des Plaines, Illinois, arrest John Wayne Gacy for murder
1988 Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air, over Scotland; kills all 259 passengers and crew on board, and 11 people on the ground
2012 "Gangnam Style" by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
2022 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington, DC, meets with US President Joe Biden at the White House, and addresses Congress

If you're curious about what happened on December 21st, or if you just want to laugh at some of the craziest events that have ever taken place, then this video is for you! We'll take a look at some of the most shocking events that took place on this day in history, and you'll never look at December 21 the same way again!