Historical Events In December - 21

1918  On this day in history 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 December - 21 j Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia   

1919  Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56) on this day in history.   

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

1920  On December - 21 claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death   

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

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

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

1921  P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 on December - 21.   

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

1923  On this day in history nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation   

1923  Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan on December - 21.   

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

1925  On December - 21 eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow   

1926  On this day in history soccer team DOS Struggle forms   

1926  On December - 21 john Herbert McDowell, composer   

1927  Michael Carreras, film director on December - 21.   

1927  Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies on December - 21.   

1928  On this day in history ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)   

1928  Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v S Africa 1895-96), dies on this day in history.   

1929  First group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas TX on December - 21.   

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

1929  Jack Philip Cannon, composer on December - 21.   

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  On December - 21 fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)   

1932  Ilja Zeljenka, composer on this day in history.   

1933  Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54   

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

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

1401  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1603  On December - 21 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 December - 21.   

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  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  Death of Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492) on December - 21.   

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