📜 December 12: On This Day in History |  | Stayin’ Alive |  Image: CNN | Each of the following events happened on December 12. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The film Saturday Night Fever premieres in New York City. Shining a bright light on the world of disco dance, it becomes a pop-culture juggernaut and propels young John Travolta to stardom.
- B) Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth would limit transmission to 200 miles or less.
- C) Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia’s hotel room in Florence. Peruggia had previously worked at the Louvre, and participated in the heist
- D) The world's first motel, the Milestone Mo-Tel, opens in San Luis Obispo. It gives motorists a place to stop as they drive between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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📜 Answers | | B, C, D, A - B) 1901 – The first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean is sent. The detractors were actually right—the transatlantic radio signal had been headed into space, when it was reflected off the ionosphere and bounced back down toward Canada.
- C) 1913 – The Mona Lisa is recovered following a heist at the Louvre.
- D) 1925 – The world's first motel, the Milestone Mo-Tel, opens its doors.
- A) 1977 – Saturday Night Fever premieres.
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