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

1967  On this day in history louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55   

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 December - 21.   

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  UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general on this day in history.   

1972  On this day in history soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany   

1972  On this day in history horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70   

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

1974  On this day in history richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47   

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 this day in history.   

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

1976  On this day in history uN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child   

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 this day in history.   

1978  On this day in history police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder   

1979  On December - 21 gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game   

1979  Bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies on this day in history.   

1980  Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 on December - 21.   

1983  On December - 21 loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan   

1983  On December - 21 rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73   

1984  USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come on this day in history.   

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

1986  On this day in history 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 December - 21 robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies   

1988  On this day in history 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 December - 21.   

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1117  On December - 21 birth of thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury   

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

1518  On December - 21 birth of mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician   

1537  On this day in history birth of johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)   

1596  On December - 21 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  On this day in history birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer   

1628  On December - 21 birth of samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer   

0072  On December - 21 death of thomas the Apostle   

0918  Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies on this day in history.   

1295  Death of Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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