Page 4: 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  Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85) on this day in history.   

1919  J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia on December - 21.   

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 December - 21.   

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  On December - 21 supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional   

1921  Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina on December - 21.   

1921  P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1922  On December - 21 paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)   

1923  Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation on this day in history.   

1923  On this day in history intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan   

1924  On this day in history joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)   

1925  Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow on December - 21.   

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

1926  On this day in history john Herbert McDowell, composer   

1927  On December - 21 michael Carreras, film director   

1927  Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies on this day in history.   

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 December - 21.   

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

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

1929  On December - 21 jack Philip Cannon, composer   

1930  On this day in history 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  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 on this day in history.   

1932  On December - 21 fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)   

1932  Ilja Zeljenka, composer on December - 21.   

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

1933  Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony on December - 21.   

1933  Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania on this day in history.   

1933  On this day in history knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54   

1935  On December - 21 kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45   

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1117  Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1616  On December - 21 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 December - 21.   

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

1308  Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies on December - 21.   

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 this day in history death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter