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 December - 21 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  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  Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage on December - 21.   

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

1970  WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting on December - 21.   

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  Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 on December - 21.   

1973  Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva on this day in history.   

1974  On this day in history richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47   

1975  First New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) on this day in history.   

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

1975  On this day in history william Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61   

1976  UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child on December - 21.   

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

1976  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1979  On December - 21 gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game   

1979  On December - 21 bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies   

1980  On this day in history marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90   

1983  On December - 21 loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan   

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

1984  On this day in history 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  On this day in history over 50,000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China   

1987  On December - 21 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man   

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  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  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  On December - 21 birth of johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)   

1596  Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646) was born on December - 21.   

1603  Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684) was born on December - 21.   

1616  On this day in history birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer   

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

0072  Death of Thomas the Apostle on December - 21.   

0918  Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies on this day in history.   

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  On December - 21 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  Death of Vicente Masip, Spanish painter on this day in history.