Historical Events In December - 21

1962  Angolin leaves Comecon on this day in history.   

1963  On December - 21 jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies   

1965  On this day in history claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74   

1966  USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum on this day in history.   

1967  Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 on December - 21.   

1968  On this day in history launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10).   

1968  Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage on this day in history.   

1969  Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show) on this day in history.   

1970  WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting on this day in history.   

1971  UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general on this day in history.   

1972  Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany on December - 21.   

1972  Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 on December - 21.   

1973  On December - 21 israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva   

1974  On this day in history richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47   

1975  First New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) on this day in history.   

1975  On this day in history "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances   

1975  William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1976  On this day in history uN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child   

1976  20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins on December - 21.   

1976  Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies on this day in history.   

1978  On December - 21 police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder   

1979  Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game on December - 21.   

1979  Bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies on this day in history.   

1980  On December - 21 marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90   

1983  On December - 21 loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan   

1983  On December - 21 rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73   

1984  On this day in history uSSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come   

1985  ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA on December - 21.   

1986  Over 50,000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China on December - 21.   

1987  3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man on this day in history.   

1987  On December - 21 soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir   

1987  Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies on this day in history.   

1988  After a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth on December - 21.   

1988  On this day in history drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine   

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1117  Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury was born on December - 21.   

1401  On this day in history birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)   

1518  Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician was born on December - 21.   

1537  Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92) was born on this day in history.   

1596  On December - 21 birth of petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)   

1603  Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684) was born on December - 21.   

1616  On this day in history birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer   

1628  Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer was born on December - 21.   

0072  On December - 21 death of thomas the Apostle   

0918  On December - 21 conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies   

1295  On December - 21 death of marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)   

1308  On this day in history henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies   

1375  Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies on December - 21.   

1504  Death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442) on December - 21.   

1549  Death of Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492) on this day in history.   

1579  Death of Vicente Masip, Spanish painter on this day in history.