Historical Events In December - 21

1918  Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000 on this day in history.  

1918  On this day in history donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)  

1919  J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia on December - 21.  

1919  Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56) on December - 21.  

1920  On December - 21 jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC  

1920  Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death on December - 21.  

1921  Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional on December - 21.  

1921  On December - 21 supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional  

1921  On December - 21 alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina  

1921  P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

1922  Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith) on this day in history.  

1923  Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation on December - 21.  

1923  On December - 21 intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan  

1924  On this day in history joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)  

1925  On this day in history eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow  

1926  Soccer team DOS Struggle forms on December - 21.  

1926  On this day in history john Herbert McDowell, composer  

1927  Michael Carreras, film director on December - 21.  

1927  Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies on December - 21.  

1928  On December - 21 ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)  

1928  Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v S Africa 1895-96), dies on this day in history.  

1929  On December - 21 first group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas TX  

1929  On December - 21 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)  

1929  Jack Philip Cannon, composer on December - 21.  

1930  On December - 21 willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches  

1931  Caroline Kaart, [Paterson Raitt], Dutch alto singer on December - 21.  

1932  SS Gateshead, sunk in a storm off Seaham Harbour, Durham after a collision with the Norwegian vessel Miranda. Most of the crew including the Captain, Matthew W. Hall lost their lives on this day in history.  

1932  On this day in history fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)  

1932  On December - 21 ilja Zeljenka, composer  

1933  On this day in history dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania  

1933  Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony on this day in history.  

1933  On this day in history dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania  

1933  On December - 21 knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54  

1935  On this day in history kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45  

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1117  On this day in history birth of thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury  

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 this day in history.  

1616  Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer was born on December - 21.  

1628  On December - 21 birth of samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer  

0072  Death of Thomas the Apostle on December - 21.  

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  On December - 21 giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies  

1504  On December - 21 death of bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)  

1549  On December - 21 death of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)  

1579  On this day in history death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter