Page 6: Historical Events In December - 21

1962  Angolin leaves Comecon on this day in history.   

1963  Jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies on this day in history.   

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

1966  USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum on this day in history.   

1967  Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history 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 December - 21 soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany   

1972  On this day in history horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70   

1973  On this day in history israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva   

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  "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances on this day in history.   

1975  On December - 21 william Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61   

1976  UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child on this day in history.   

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

1976  Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies on December - 21.   

1978  On this day in history 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  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 December - 21.   

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

1983  On this day in history rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73   

1984  On this day in history uSSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come   

1985  On December - 21 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 this day in history.   

1987  On this day in history 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man   

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 December - 21 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 December - 21.   

1401  On December - 21 birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)   

1518  On this day in history birth of mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician   

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 this day in history.   

1603  Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

0072  On this day in history 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  Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies on this day in history.   

1375  On this day in history giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies   

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 December - 21.