December 21st All Events |
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December 21st, 2069 (December 21 2069) | Event | The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian becomes the fourth Emperor of Rome within a year. | |
December 21st, 2007 (December 21 2007) | Event | The Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on land and sea borders. | |
December 21st, 2007 (December 21 2007) | Death | Ken Hendricks, American businessman (born in 1941) | |
December 21st, 2006 (December 21 2006) | Death | Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey (born in 1914) | |
December 21st, 2006 (December 21 2006) | Death | Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (born in 1940) | |
December 21st, 2005 (December 21 2005) | Death | Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (born in 1940) | |
December 21st, 2004 (December 21 2004) | Death | Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (born in 1925) | |
December 21st, 2003 (December 21 2003) | Death | Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish playboy and businessman (born in 1924) | |
December 21st, 2001 (December 21 2001) | Death | Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (born in 1934) | |
December 21st, 1999 (December 21 1999) | Event | The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid. | |
December 21st, 1998 (December 21 1998) | Death | Roger Avon, Durham actor (born in 1914) | |
December 21st, 1998 (December 21 1998) | Death | Karl Denver, Scottish singer (b 1931) | |
December 21st, 1998 (December 21 1998) | Death | Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 {born in 1904) | |
December 21st, 1997 (December 21 1997) | Death | Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (born in 1976) | |
December 21st, 1995 (December 21 1995) | Event | The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. | |
December 21st, 1992 (December 21 1992) | Event | A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport (Portugal), killing 56 people. | |
December 21st, 1992 (December 21 1992) | Death | Albert King, American blues musician (born in 1924) | |
December 21st, 1992 (December 21 1992) | Death | Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (born in 1903) | |
December 21st, 1991 (December 21 1991) | Event | Charilaos Florakis is elected honorary president of the Communist Party of Greece. | |
December 21st, 1990 (December 21 1990) | Death | Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aeronautical engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; born in 1910) | |
December 21st, 1989 (December 21 1989) | Event | The Romanian Revolution of 1989 moves from Timisoara to Bucharest. | |
December 21st, 1988 (December 21 1988) | Event | A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. | |
December 21st, 1988 (December 21 1988) | Death | Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1907) | |
December 21st, 1987 (December 21 1987) | Event | The passenger ferry Dona Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing 1,565. | |
December 21st, 1987 (December 21 1987) | Birth | Valerie Concepcion, Filipino Actress | |
December 21st, 1987 (December 21 1987) | Death | John Spence, founding No Doubt member (born in 1969) | |
December 21st, 1985 (December 21 1985) | Birth | James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer | |
December 21st, 1984 (December 21 1984) | Birth | Darren Potter, Irish footballer | |
December 21st, 1983 (December 21 1983) | Death | Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (born in 1919) | |
December 21st, 1982 (December 21 1982) | Birth | Mike Gansey, American basketball player | |
December 21st, 1982 (December 21 1982) | Birth | Erica Hayden, American journalist and radio personality | |
December 21st, 1982 (December 21 1982) | Birth | Philip Humber, American baseball player | |
December 21st, 1982 (December 21 1982) | Birth | Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist | |
December 21st, 1981 (December 21 1981) | Birth | Cristian Zaccardo, Italian football player | |
December 21st, 1981 (December 21 1981) | Birth | Lynda Thomas, Mexican singer | |
December 21st, 1981 (December 21 1981) | Birth | Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer | |
December 21st, 1981 (December 21 1981) | Birth | Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate. (died in 2007) | |
December 21st, 1981 (December 21 1981) | Death | Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (born in 1885) | |
December 21st, 1979 (December 21 1979) | Event | Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara. | Robert Mugabe Quotes |
December 21st, 1979 (December 21 1979) | Birth | Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and singer | |
December 21st, 1978 (December 21 1978) | Birth | Mike Vitar, American actor | |
December 21st, 1976 (December 21 1976) | Birth | Mirela Manjani, Greek javelin thrower | |
December 21st, 1975 (December 21 1975) | Birth | Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer | |
December 21st, 1974 (December 21 1974) | Birth | Karrie Webb, Australian golfer | |
December 21st, 1974 (December 21 1974) | Death | James Henry Govier, British artist (born in 1910) | Henry James Quotes |
December 21st, 1974 (December 21 1974) | Death | Richard Long, American actor (born in 1927) | |
December 21st, 1973 (December 21 1973) | Event | The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens. | |
December 21st, 1973 (December 21 1973) | Birth | Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer | |
December 21st, 1973 (December 21 1973) | Birth | Mike Alstott, American football player | |
December 21st, 1972 (December 21 1972) | Birth | Latroy Hawkins, baseball player | |
December 21st, 1972 (December 21 1972) | Birth | Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan opera singer | |
December 21st, 1972 (December 21 1972) | Birth | Dustin Hermanson, baseball player | |
December 21st, 1972 (December 21 1972) | Death | Thomas the Apostle | |
December 21st, 1971 (December 21 1971) | Event | The United Nations Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General. | U Thant Quotes |
December 21st, 1971 (December 21 1971) | Birth | Mathieu Chedid, French musician | |
December 21st, 1971 (December 21 1971) | Birth | Fenton Keogh, Australian celebrity chef | |
December 21st, 1971 (December 21 1971) | Birth | Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel, The X s) | |
December 21st, 1970 (December 21 1970) | Birth | Jamie Theakston, English television presenter | |
December 21st, 1969 (December 21 1969) | Birth | Julie Delpy, French actress | |
December 21st, 1969 (December 21 1969) | Birth | Mihails Zemlinskis, Latvian footballer | |
December 21st, 1968 (December 21 1968) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 2h:50m:37s Mission elapsed time (MES), the crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave Earth s gravity. | |
December 21st, 1967 (December 21 1967) | Event | Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days. | |
December 21st, 1967 (December 21 1967) | Birth | Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia | |
December 21st, 1967 (December 21 1967) | Death | Stuart Erwin, American actor (born in 1903) | |
December 21st, 1966 (December 21 1966) | Birth | Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor | Kiefer Sutherland Quotes |
December 21st, 1966 (December 21 1966) | Birth | Karri Turner, American actress | |
December 21st, 1965 (December 21 1965) | Birth | Andy Dick, American actor and comedian | |
December 21st, 1965 (December 21 1965) | Birth | Anke Engelke, German comedian | Anke Engelke Quotes |
December 21st, 1965 (December 21 1965) | Death | Claude Champagne, Quebec composer (born in 1891) | |
December 21st, 1964 (December 21 1964) | Birth | Rob Kelly, English football manager | |
December 21st, 1964 (December 21 1964) | Birth | Fabiana Udenio, Argentine actress | |
December 21st, 1964 (December 21 1964) | Death | Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (born in 1880) | |
December 21st, 1962 (December 21 1962) | Event | Rondane National Park is established as Norway s first national park. | |
December 21st, 1961 (December 21 1961) | Birth | Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor | |
December 21st, 1961 (December 21 1961) | Birth | Ryuji Sasai, Japanese composer | |
December 21st, 1960 (December 21 1960) | Birth | Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist | |
December 21st, 1960 (December 21 1960) | Birth | Roger McDowell, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher | |
December 21st, 1960 (December 21 1960) | Birth | Andy Van Slyke, baseball player | |
December 21st, 1959 (December 21 1959) | Birth | Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (died in 1998) | |
December 21st, 1959 (December 21 1959) | Death | Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (born in 1883) | |
December 21st, 1958 (December 21 1958) | Event | French presidential election: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France as his Union des Democrates pour la Republique party gain 78.5% of the vote. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
December 21st, 1958 (December 21 1958) | Death | Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (born in 1884) | An Wang Quotes |
December 21st, 1957 (December 21 1957) | Birth | Tom Henke, American baseball player | |
December 21st, 1957 (December 21 1957) | Birth | Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian | Ray Romano Quotes |
December 21st, 1957 (December 21 1957) | Death | Eric Coates, English composer (born in 1886) | |
December 21st, 1956 (December 21 1956) | Birth | Lee Roy Parnell, American country singer | |
December 21st, 1955 (December 21 1955) | Birth | Jane Kaczmarek, American actress | |
December 21st, 1955 (December 21 1955) | Birth | Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician | |
December 21st, 1954 (December 21 1954) | Birth | Chris Evert, American tennis player | |
December 21st, 1953 (December 21 1953) | Birth | Betty Wright, American singer | |
December 21st, 1952 (December 21 1952) | Birth | Joaquin Andujar, baseball player | |
December 21st, 1951 (December 21 1951) | Birth | Nick Gilder, English musician (Sweeney Todd) | |
December 21st, 1950 (December 21 1950) | Birth | Jeffrey Katzenberg, American producer | |
December 21st, 1950 (December 21 1950) | Birth | Lillebjorn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter | |
December 21st, 1949 (December 21 1949) | Birth | Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek politician | |
December 21st, 1948 (December 21 1948) | Birth | Samuel L. Jackson, American actor | |
December 21st, 1948 (December 21 1948) | Birth | Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician | |
December 21st, 1948 (December 21 1948) | Birth | Dave Kingman, baseball player | |
December 21st, 1947 (December 21 1947) | Birth | Paco de Lucia, Spanish musician | |
December 21st, 1947 (December 21 1947) | Birth | Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer | |
December 21st, 1946 (December 21 1946) | Birth | Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (died in 1998) | |
December 21st, 1946 (December 21 1946) | Birth | Christopher Keene, American conductor (died in 1995) | |
December 21st, 1945 (December 21 1945) | Death | George S. Patton, U.S. general (born in 1885) | George S. Patton Quotes |
December 21st, 1944 (December 21 1944) | Birth | Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (died in 2007) | |
December 21st, 1944 (December 21 1944) | Birth | Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor | |
December 21st, 1944 (December 21 1944) | Birth | Bill Atkinson, English footballer | |
December 21st, 1943 (December 21 1943) | Birth | Andre Arthur. Quebec radio host | |
December 21st, 1942 (December 21 1942) | Birth | Hu Jintao, Chinese president | |
December 21st, 1942 (December 21 1942) | Birth | Reinhard Mey, German singer | |
December 21st, 1942 (December 21 1942) | Birth | Carla Thomas, American singer | |
December 21st, 1940 (December 21 1940) | Birth | Frank Zappa, American musician (died in 1993) | Frank Zappa Quotes |
December 21st, 1940 (December 21 1940) | Birth | Ray Hildebrand, American singer (Paul & Paula) | |
December 21st, 1940 (December 21 1940) | Death | F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (born in 1896) | F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes |
December 21st, 1939 (December 21 1939) | Birth | Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician | |
December 21st, 1937 (December 21 1937) | Birth | Jane Fonda, American actress | |
December 21st, 1937 (December 21 1937) | Birth | Donald F. Munson, American politician | |
December 21st, 1937 (December 21 1937) | Death | Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1856) | |
December 21st, 1935 (December 21 1935) | Birth | John G. Avildsen, American film director | |
December 21st, 1935 (December 21 1935) | Birth | Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racecar driver (died in 1967) | |
December 21st, 1935 (December 21 1935) | Birth | Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist (died in 2003) | |
December 21st, 1935 (December 21 1935) | Birth | Phil Donahue, American talk show host | |
December 21st, 1935 (December 21 1935) | Birth | Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba | |
December 21st, 1935 (December 21 1935) | Death | Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (born in 1890) | |
December 21st, 1933 (December 21 1933) | Death | Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist (born in 1879) | |
December 21st, 1932 (December 21 1932) | Birth | Edward Hoagland, American essayist | |
December 21st, 1926 (December 21 1926) | Birth | Joe Paterno, American football coach | |
December 21st, 1923 (December 21 1923) | Birth | Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan | |
December 21st, 1922 (December 21 1922) | Birth | Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist (died in 2005) | |
December 21st, 1921 (December 21 1921) | Birth | Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (died in 2008) | |
December 21st, 1921 (December 21 1921) | Birth | John Severin, American comics artist | |
December 21st, 1920 (December 21 1920) | Birth | Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina | |
December 21st, 1920 (December 21 1920) | Birth | Bob Bindig, cartoonist (died in 2006) | |
December 21st, 1920 (December 21 1920) | Birth | Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (died in 1988) | |
December 21st, 1918 (December 21 1918) | Birth | Donald Regan, American White House Chief of Staff (died in 2003) | |
December 21st, 1918 (December 21 1918) | Birth | Kurt Waldheim, Austrian United Nations Secretary-General and Federal President of Austria (died in 2007) | |
December 21st, 1917 (December 21 1917) | Birth | Heinrich Boll, German writer and Nobel laureate (died in 1985) | |
December 21st, 1917 (December 21 1917) | Birth | Sophie Masloff, American politician | |
December 21st, 1915 (December 21 1915) | Birth | Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (died in 2007) | |
December 21st, 1914 (December 21 1914) | Birth | Ivan Generalic, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (died in 1992) | |
December 21st, 1913 (December 21 1913) | Event | Arthur Wynne s "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World. | |
December 21st, 1911 (December 21 1911) | Birth | Josh Gibson, American baseball player (died in 1947) | |
December 21st, 1909 (December 21 1909) | Birth | Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (died in 1992) | |
December 21st, 1905 (December 21 1905) | Birth | Anthony Powell, British author (died in 2000) | Anthony Powell Quotes |
December 21st, 1900 (December 21 1900) | Death | Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (born in 1847) | |
December 21st, 1896 (December 21 1896) | Birth | Leroy Robertson, American composer (died in 1971) | |
December 21st, 1892 (December 21 1892) | Birth | Walter Hagen, American golfer (died in 1969) | |
December 21st, 1892 (December 21 1892) | Birth | Rebecca West, American writer (died in 1983) | |
December 21st, 1892 (December 21 1892) | Birth | Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet | |
December 21st, 1891 (December 21 1891) | Birth | John William McCormack, American politician (died in 1980) | |
December 21st, 1890 (December 21 1890) | Birth | Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate (died in 1967) | |
December 21st, 1889 (December 21 1889) | Birth | Sewall Wright, American biologist (died in 1988) | |
December 21st, 1889 (December 21 1889) | Death | Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (born in 1809) | |
December 21st, 1885 (December 21 1885) | Birth | Frank Patrick, hockey player (died in 1960) | |
December 21st, 1883 (December 21 1883) | Event | The first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army are formed: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment. | |
December 21st, 1879 (December 21 1879) | Birth | Joseph Stalin, U.S.S.R Leader | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
December 21st, 1878 (December 21 1878) | Birth | Jan Lukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (died in 1956) | Philo Quotes |
December 21st, 1876 (December 21 1876) | Birth | Jack Lang (John Thomas Lang), Premier of New South Wales (died in 1975) | |
December 21st, 1873 (December 21 1873) | Birth | Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (died in 1934) | |
December 21st, 1873 (December 21 1873) | Death | Francis Garnier, French explorer (born in 1839) | |
December 21st, 1872 (December 21 1872) | Event | Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth. | |
December 21st, 1872 (December 21 1872) | Birth | Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (died in 1922) | |
December 21st, 1872 (December 21 1872) | Birth | Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (died in 1956) | |
December 21st, 1872 (December 21 1872) | Birth | Albert Payson Terhune, American author (died in 1942) | |
December 21st, 1861 (December 21 1861) | Event | Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
December 21st, 1859 (December 21 1859) | Birth | Gustave Kahn, French poet (died in 1936) | |
December 21st, 1851 (December 21 1851) | Birth | Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (died in 1929) | |
December 21st, 1850 (December 21 1850) | Birth | Zdenek Fibich, Bohemian composer (died in 1900) | |
December 21st, 1844 (December 21 1844) | Event | The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. | |
December 21st, 1843 (December 21 1843) | Birth | Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealander poet (died in 1898) | Thomas Bracken Quotes |
December 21st, 1832 (December 21 1832) | Birth | John H. Ketcham, American politician (died in 1906) | |
December 21st, 1824 (December 21 1824) | Death | James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (born in 1755) | |
December 21st, 1818 (December 21 1818) | Birth | Amalia of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece (died in 1875) | |
December 21st, 1815 (December 21 1815) | Birth | Thomas Couture French painter and teacher (died in 1879) | |
December 21st, 1811 (December 21 1811) | Birth | Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (died in 1882) | |
December 21st, 1807 (December 21 1807) | Death | John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (born in 1725) | John Newton Quotes |
December 21st, 1805 (December 21 1805) | Birth | Thomas Graham, British chemist (died in 1869) | |
December 21st, 1804 (December 21 1804) | Birth | Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1881) | Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
December 21st, 1795 (December 21 1795) | Birth | Leopold von Ranke, German historian (died in 1886) | Leopold von Ranke Quotes |
December 21st, 1778 (December 21 1778) | Birth | Anders Sandoe Orsted, Danish politician (died in 1860) | |
December 21st, 1714 (December 21 1714) | Birth | John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (died in 1774) | |
December 21st, 1620 (December 21 1620) | Event | Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts. | William Bradford Quotes |
December 21st, 1603 (December 21 1603) | Birth | Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (died in 1684) | Roger Williams Quotes |
December 21st, 1598 (December 21 1598) | Event | Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spaniards troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania". | |
December 21st, 1597 (December 21 1597) | Death | Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (born in 1521) | |
December 21st, 1596 (December 21 1596) | Birth | Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (died in 1646) | |
December 21st, 1579 (December 21 1579) | Death | Vicente Masip, Spanish painter | |
December 21st, 1549 (December 21 1549) | Death | Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (born in 1492) | |
December 21st, 1504 (December 21 1504) | Death | Bertold von Henneberg-Romhild, German archbishop and elector (born in 1442) | |
December 21st, 1401 (December 21 1401) | Birth | Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (died in 1428) | |
December 21st, 1375 (December 21 1375) | Death | Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (born in 1313) | Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes |
December 21st, 1308 (December 21 1308) | Death | Henry I of Hesse (born in 1244) | |
December 21st, 1295 (December 21 1295) | Death | Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221) | Louis IX of France Quotes |
December 21st, 1118 (December 21 1118) | Birth | Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (died in 1170) | |