Historical Events In December - 21

1918  On December - 21 red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000   

1918  On December - 21 donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)   

1919  On this day in history j Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia   

1919  Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56) on December - 21.   

1920  Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1920  Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death on December - 21.   

1921  Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional on December - 21.   

1921  Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional on this day in history.   

1921  Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina on this day in history.   

1921  On this day in history p B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84   

1922  Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith) on this day in history.   

1923  On December - 21 nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation   

1923  On December - 21 intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan   

1924  Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986) on this day in history.   

1925  On this day in history eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow   

1926  Soccer team DOS Struggle forms on this day in history.   

1926  John Herbert McDowell, composer on December - 21.   

1927  Michael Carreras, film director on this day in history.   

1927  On December - 21 jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies   

1928  Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider) on December - 21.   

1928  Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v S Africa 1895-96), dies on December - 21.   

1929  First group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas TX on this day in history.   

1929  On December - 21 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)   

1929  Jack Philip Cannon, composer on this day in history.   

1930  On December - 21 willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches   

1931  Caroline Kaart, [Paterson Raitt], Dutch alto singer on this day in history.   

1932  On this day in history sS Gateshead, sunk in a storm off Seaham Harbour, Durham after a collision with the Norwegian vessel Miranda. Most of the crew including the Captain, Matthew W. Hall lost their lives.   

1932  Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) on this day in history.   

1932  On this day in history ilja Zeljenka, composer   

1933  Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania on December - 21.   

1933  On December - 21 newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony   

1933  On this day in history dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania   

1933  Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 on December - 21.   

1935  On this day in history kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45   

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1117  Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury was born on December - 21.   

1401  On December - 21 birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)   

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

1537  Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92) was born on December - 21.   

1596  On this day in history birth of petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)   

1603  On this day in history birth of roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)   

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

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

0072  Death of Thomas the Apostle on this day in history.   

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

1295  On this day in history death of marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)   

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  On this day in history death of bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)   

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