President Nixon meets Elvis Presley

On December 21, 1970

Elvis Presley met President Richard Nixon in the White House.

The image of this meeting became the most requested photo from the entire National Archives.

This Day in History - December 21

1988

Antonov An-255 Mriya, the largest airplane in the world, flew for the first time.

1937

The first full-length animated feature film, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' premiered.

2005

Elton John and his partner David Furnish registered their civil partnership at Windsor Town Hall on the first day civil partnerships could legally be performed in England.

1914

The first feature-length silent film comedy, 'Tillie's Punctured Romance,' was released, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Charlie Chaplin.

1898

French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.

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