Page 6: Historical Events In December - 21

1962  Angolin leaves Comecon on December - 21.   

1963  Jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies on December - 21.   

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

1966  USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum on this day in history.   

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

1968  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) on this day in history.   

1968  Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage on this day in history.   

1969  Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show) on this day in history.   

1970  On December - 21 wUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting   

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 December - 21.   

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

1974  Richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47 on December - 21.   

1975  On December - 21 first New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)   

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

1975  On December - 21 william Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61   

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

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

1976  Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies on December - 21.   

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

1979  On this day in history gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game   

1979  On December - 21 bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies   

1980  On this day in history marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90   

1983  On December - 21 loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan   

1983  Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

1985  ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA on this day in history.   

1986  On December - 21 over 50,000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China   

1987  3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man on this day in history.   

1987  On December - 21 soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir   

1987  On this day in history robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies   

1988  On December - 21 after a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth   

1988  Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine on this day in history.   

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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 this day in history.   

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 December - 21.   

1628  Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  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  Death of Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492) on December - 21.   

1579  On this day in history death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter