Page 4: 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 this day in history.   

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

1920  On this day in history jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC   

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

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

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

1921  Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina on this day in history.   

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 this day in history nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation   

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

1924  Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986) on December - 21.   

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

1926  Soccer team DOS Struggle forms on this day in history.   

1926  John Herbert McDowell, composer on December - 21.   

1927  Michael Carreras, film director on December - 21.   

1927  On December - 21 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 December - 21.   

1928  On December - 21 harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v S Africa 1895-96), dies   

1929  First group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas TX on this day in history.   

1929  1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx) on this day in history.   

1929  Jack Philip Cannon, composer on this day in history.   

1930  Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches on December - 21.   

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

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 December - 21 fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)   

1932  On December - 21 ilja Zeljenka, composer   

1933  Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania on December - 21.   

1933  Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony on December - 21.   

1933  Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania on December - 21.   

1933  Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1935  On December - 21 kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45   

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

1401  Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer was born on this day in history.   

1628  On this day in history birth of samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer   

0072  On this day in history death of thomas the Apostle   

0918  On this day in history conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies   

1295  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)   

1549  Death of Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492) on December - 21.   

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