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  Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74 on December - 21.   

1966  On this day in history uSSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum   

1967  Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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

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 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  "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances on December - 21.   

1975  On December - 21 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 this day in history 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 this day in history police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder   

1979  Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game on this day in history.   

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  On December - 21 loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan   

1983  Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 on December - 21.   

1984  On December - 21 uSSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come   

1985  On December - 21 aRCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA   

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

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

1987  On December - 21 soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir   

1987  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1988  Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine on December - 21.   

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

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

0918  On this day in history conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies   

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

1308  On this day in history 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 December - 21 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  Death of Vicente Masip, Spanish painter on this day in history.