1891
The first basketball game was played
The modern game was invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by Dr. James E. Naismith
1913
Arthur Wynne published a new “word-cross” puzzle in the “New York World” in England.
The name was later changed to crossword
1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released
This was Walt Disney’s debut full-length, animated featured-film
1978
Police in Des Plaines, Illinois, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing
and then lastly…
2012
People gathered in Central America and around the world to mark what some believed was the “end of the world” predicted by the end of the Mayan calendar
An actual apocalypse never happened
-Tyler Jackson
