Historical Events In December - 21

1962  Angolin leaves Comecon on December - 21.  

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

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

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

1967  On December - 21 louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55  

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  On December - 21 apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage  

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

1970  WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1973  Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva on December - 21.  

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

1975  On this day in history first New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)  

1975  On this day in history "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  On this day in history uN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child  

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

1976  On this day in history edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies  

1978  On December - 21 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 December - 21.  

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

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  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  On this day in history soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir  

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

1988  On December - 21 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  On this day in history birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)  

1518  Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician was born on this day in history.  

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

1596  Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646) was born on this day in history.  

1603  Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684) was born on December - 21.  

1616  On December - 21 birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer  

1628  On this day in history birth of samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer  

0072  On this day in history death of thomas the Apostle  

0918  Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies on December - 21.  

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  On December - 21 death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter