Historical Events In December - 21

1918  On December - 21 red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000  

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  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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina  

1921  On December - 21 p B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84  

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

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

1925  Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow on this day in history.  

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

1928  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

1929  Jack Philip Cannon, composer on December - 21.  

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

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 December - 21.  

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 December - 21.  

1935  On December - 21 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  Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428) was born on December - 21.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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  On December - 21 henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies  

1375  Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies on this day in history.  

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