Historical Events In December - 21

1962  On December - 21 angolin leaves Comecon   

1963  On December - 21 jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies   

1965  Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1966  USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum on December - 21.   

1967  Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 on December - 21.   

1968  On this day in history 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).   

1968  On this day in history apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage   

1969  On this day in history 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  On this day in history soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany   

1972  On December - 21 horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70   

1973  On December - 21 israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva   

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 this day in history.   

1975  William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 on December - 21.   

1976  On December - 21 uN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child   

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

1976  On December - 21 edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies   

1978  Police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder on December - 21.   

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  On December - 21 marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90   

1983  Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan on this day in history.   

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

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

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 December - 21.   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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1117  On this day in history birth of thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury   

1401  Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428) was born on this day in history.   

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

1628  On this day in history birth of samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer   

0072  Death of Thomas the Apostle on December - 21.   

0918  On December - 21 conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies   

1295  On December - 21 death of marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)   

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 December - 21.   

1504  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of vicente Masip, Spanish painter