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 December - 21.  

1918  On December - 21 donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)  

1919  On December - 21 j Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia  

1919  On this day in history gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)  

1920  Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC on December - 21.  

1920  On December - 21 claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death  

1921  On this day in history supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional  

1921  Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional on this day in history.  

1921  Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina on December - 21.  

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 December - 21.  

1923  On December - 21 nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation  

1923  Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan on December - 21.  

1924  Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986) on this day in history.  

1925  Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow on December - 21.  

1926  Soccer team DOS Struggle forms on December - 21.  

1926  John Herbert McDowell, composer on December - 21.  

1927  Michael Carreras, film director on this day in history.  

1927  On this day in history jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies  

1928  Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider) on this day in history.  

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

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  On December - 21 jack Philip Cannon, composer  

1930  On this day in history willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches  

1931  On this day in history caroline Kaart, [Paterson Raitt], Dutch alto singer  

1932  On this day in history 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.  

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

1932  Ilja Zeljenka, composer on this day in history.  

1933  Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania on this day in history.  

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 this day in history knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54  

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

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1117  Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.  

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

1518  Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician was born on this day in history.  

1537  Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92) was born on December - 21.  

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 December - 21 birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer  

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

0072  On this day in history death of thomas the Apostle  

0918  Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies on this day in history.  

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

1308  Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies on December - 21.  

1375  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)  

1579  On December - 21 death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter