Gym teacher James Naismith organized the first game of basketball, which was played on this day in 1891 in a school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Chaos reigned and a fight broke out, which prompted Naismith to develop the sport’s original rules. 1891.
The music video for South Korean singer PSY‘s pop song Gangnam Style became the first video on YouTube to get one billion views. 2012.
Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 more on the ground. Years later, an employee of Libyan Arab Airlines was convicted of the terrorist attack, and the government of Libya agreed to pay damages to the families of the victims. 1988.
The movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered. It was Walt Disney‘s first feature-length animated film, and its critical and commercial success determined his company‘s path forward for decades. 1937.
Future Nobel Prize winners Marie Curie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive chemical element radium, a silvery white metal used in early cancer treatment. 1898
The Battle of Firoz Shah began between British and Sikh forces during the First Sikh War. 1845.
Benjamin Disraeli, the statesman and novelist who was British prime minister twice (1868, 1874–80), was born in London. 1804.
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