Historical Events In December - 21

1962  On December - 21 angolin leaves Comecon  

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

1965  On this day in history claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74  

1966  USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum on December - 21.  

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

1968  On December - 21 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 this day in history.  

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

1970  On this day in history wUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting  

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

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1972  Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany on this day in history.  

1972  Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 on December - 21.  

1973  Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva on this day in history.  

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

1975  First New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) on December - 21.  

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 December - 21.  

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 December - 21.  

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

1980  On December - 21 marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90  

1983  Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan on this day in history.  

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

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

1985  On this day in history aRCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA  

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

1987  On this day in history 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  On December - 21 robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies  

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

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

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  On December - 21 death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter