Page 6: Historical Events In December - 21

1962  On this day in history angolin leaves Comecon   

1963  On this day in history jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies   

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 December - 21.   

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

1969  On December - 21 diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)   

1970  On December - 21 wUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting   

1971  UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general on December - 21.   

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  Richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47 on this day in history.   

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  UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child on this day in history.   

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

1976  On December - 21 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  Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 on December - 21.   

1983  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1988  On December - 21 after a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth   

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 this day in history birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)   

1518  Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician was born on December - 21.   

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

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  Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer was born on this day in history.   

1628  On December - 21 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1549  On December - 21 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.