Historical Events In December - 21

1962  On December - 21 angolin leaves Comecon   

1963  On December - 21 jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies   

1965  Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74 on December - 21.   

1966  On December - 21 uSSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum   

1967  Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 on December - 21.   

1968  On this day in history launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10).   

1968  Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage on December - 21.   

1969  On December - 21 diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)   

1970  WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting on December - 21.   

1971  On December - 21 uN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general   

1972  On December - 21 soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany   

1972  Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1973  On December - 21 israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva   

1974  On December - 21 richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47   

1975  First New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) on this day in history.   

1975  On December - 21 "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances   

1975  William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1976  UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child on this day in history.   

1976  On December - 21 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins   

1976  Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies on this day in history.   

1978  On December - 21 police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder   

1979  Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game on this day in history.   

1979  On this day in history bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies   

1980  Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1983  Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan on December - 21.   

1983  Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 on December - 21.   

1984  On this day in history uSSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come   

1985  On December - 21 aRCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA   

1986  On this day in history over 50,000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China   

1987  On December - 21 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man   

1987  Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir on this day in history.   

1987  Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies on December - 21.   

1988  On this day in history after a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth   

1988  On this day in history drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine   

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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  On this day in history birth of mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician   

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  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  Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer was born on this day in history.   

0072  Death of Thomas the Apostle on this day in history.   

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

1295  Death of Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221) on December - 21.   

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

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

1504  Death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442) on December - 21.   

1549  On this day in history death of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)   

1579  Death of Vicente Masip, Spanish painter on December - 21.