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  On this day in history donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)   

1919  J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia on this day in history.   

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

1920  On this day in history jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC   

1920  Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death on this day in history.   

1921  On December - 21 supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional   

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

1921  On this day in history alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina   

1921  On December - 21 p B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84   

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

1923  On December - 21 nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation   

1923  Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan on this day in history.   

1924  Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986) on December - 21.   

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

1926  Soccer team DOS Struggle forms on December - 21.   

1926  John Herbert McDowell, composer on December - 21.   

1927  Michael Carreras, film director on this day in history.   

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

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

1928  On December - 21 harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v S Africa 1895-96), dies   

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

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

1929  On December - 21 jack Philip Cannon, composer   

1930  Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches on December - 21.   

1931  Caroline Kaart, [Paterson Raitt], Dutch alto singer on December - 21.   

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

1932  On December - 21 ilja Zeljenka, composer   

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  Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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

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

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  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  Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer was born on December - 21.   

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 this day in history death of marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)   

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  Death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442) on this day in history.   

1549  Death of Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492) on this day in history.   

1579  Death of Vicente Masip, Spanish painter on this day in history.