Page 6: Historical Events In December - 21

1962  On this day in history angolin leaves Comecon   

1963  On this day in history jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies   

1965  On December - 21 claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74   

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  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  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 this day in history uN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general   

1972  Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany on December - 21.   

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

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

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

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

1975  "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances on this day in history.   

1975  On this day in history 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  On December - 21 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins   

1976  On December - 21 edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies   

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

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

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

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

1987  On this day in history 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  On December - 21 drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine   

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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 December - 21.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1616  On this day in history birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer   

1628  Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer was born on December - 21.   

0072  On this day in history death of thomas the Apostle   

0918  On this day in history 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  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  Death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442) on December - 21.   

1549  On December - 21 death of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)   

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