TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Dec. 21, 1988

270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.

ON THIS DATE 1620

Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.

1891

The first basketball game, devised by James Naismith, is believed to have been played at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass.

1914

The U.S. government began requiring passport applicants to provide photographs of themselves.