Page 6: Historical Events In December - 21

1962  On December - 21 angolin leaves Comecon   

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

1965  On this day in history claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74   

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

1967  On December - 21 louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55   

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 December - 21.   

1968  On December - 21 apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage   

1969  Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show) on December - 21.   

1970  On December - 21 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  Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany on December - 21.   

1972  On December - 21 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  On December - 21 richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47   

1975  First New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) on December - 21.   

1975  "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances on December - 21.   

1975  William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1976  On this day in history uN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child   

1976  On this day in history 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins   

1976  Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies on this day in history.   

1978  Police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder on this day in history.   

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

1979  On this day in history bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies   

1980  Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1983  On this day in history loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan   

1983  Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1984  USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come on this day in history.   

1985  ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA on December - 21.   

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  Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir on this day in history.   

1987  Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies on December - 21.   

1988  On this day in history after a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth   

1988  On this day in history drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine   

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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  Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician was born on this day in history.   

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 December - 21 birth of roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)   

1616  On December - 21 birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer   

1628  Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer was born on this day in history.   

0072  On December - 21 death of thomas the Apostle   

0918  On December - 21 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 December - 21.   

1308  On December - 21 henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies   

1375  Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies on December - 21.   

1504  On December - 21 death of bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)   

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 this day in history.