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  Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85) on December - 21.  

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

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

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

1920  Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

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1922  On this day in history paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)  

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

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

1924  On December - 21 joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)  

1925  On December - 21 eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow  

1926  On this day in history soccer team DOS Struggle forms  

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  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  First group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas TX on December - 21.  

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

1929  On December - 21 jack Philip Cannon, composer  

1930  Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches on this day in history.  

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

1932  On this day in history ilja Zeljenka, composer  

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

1933  On this day in history newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony  

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

1933  Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 on December - 21.  

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 December - 21.  

1401  Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428) was born on December - 21.  

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  Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646) was born on December - 21.  

1603  On December - 21 birth of roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)  

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

1375  On December - 21 giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies  

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  On December - 21 death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter