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21st of December 1140 EVENT Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
21st of December 1598 EVENT Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
21st of December 1620 EVENT Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
21st of December 1832 EVENT Egyptian : Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
21st of December 1844 EVENT The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
21st of December 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.
21st of December 1872 EVENT Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
21st of December 1879 EVENT World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
21st of December 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.
21st of December 1913 EVENT Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
21st of December 1937 EVENT Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
21st of December 1941 EVENT World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew.
21st of December 1962 EVENT Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
21st of December 1967 EVENT Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.
21st of December 1968 EVENT Apollo program: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave Earth's gravity.
21st of December 1969 EVENT The Gay Activists Alliance is formed in New York City.
21st of December 1969 EVENT The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
21st of December 1973 EVENT The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
21st of December 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.
21st of December 1988 EVENT A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
21st of December 1992 EVENT A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
21st of December 1994 EVENT Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
21st of December 1995 EVENT The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
21st of December 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.
21st of December 2004 EVENT Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
21st of December 1118 BIRTHDAY Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
21st of December 1401 BIRTHDAY Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
21st of December 1596 BIRTHDAY Petru Movila, Moldovan religious figure (d. 1646)
21st of December 1603 BIRTHDAY Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
21st of December 1682 BIRTHDAY Calico Jack Rackham, English pirate (d. 1720)
21st of December 1714 BIRTHDAY John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
21st of December 1778 BIRTHDAY Anders Sand?e ?rsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)
21st of December 1795 BIRTHDAY Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
21st of December 1795 BIRTHDAY John Russell, English parson and dog breeder (d. 1883)
21st of December 1804 BIRTHDAY Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
21st of December 1805 BIRTHDAY Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
21st of December 1811 BIRTHDAY Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)
21st of December 1815 BIRTHDAY Thomas Couture French painter and teacher (d. 1879)
21st of December 1818 BIRTHDAY Amalia of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece (d. 1875)
21st of December 1832 BIRTHDAY John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)
21st of December 1840 BIRTHDAY Nam?k Kemal, Turkish nationalist poet (d. 1888)
21st of December 1843 BIRTHDAY Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
21st of December 1850 BIRTHDAY Zdenek Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900)
21st of December 1850 BIRTHDAY William Wallace Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1862)
21st of December 1851 BIRTHDAY Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician (d. 1929)
21st of December 1859 BIRTHDAY Gustave Kahn, French poet (d. 1936)
21st of December 1866 BIRTHDAY Maud Gonne, Irish activist (d. 1953)
21st of December 1872 BIRTHDAY Albert Payson Terhune, American author (d. 1942)
21st of December 1872 BIRTHDAY Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
21st of December 1872 BIRTHDAY Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
21st of December 1873 BIRTHDAY Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)
21st of December 1876 BIRTHDAY Jack Lang, Australian politician (d. 1975)
21st of December 1878 BIRTHDAY Jan ?ukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
21st of December 1885 BIRTHDAY Frank Patrick, Canadian hockey player (d. 1960)
21st of December 1889 BIRTHDAY Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
21st of December 1890 BIRTHDAY Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
21st of December 1891 BIRTHDAY John William McCormack, American politician (d. 1980)
21st of December 1892 BIRTHDAY Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (d. 1980)
21st of December 1892 BIRTHDAY Walter Hagen, American golfer (d. 1969)
21st of December 1892 BIRTHDAY Rebecca West, British writer (d. 1983)
21st of December 1896 BIRTHDAY Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
21st of December 1905 BIRTHDAY Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
21st of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Herbert Hutner, American banker and attorney (d. 2008)
21st of December 1909 BIRTHDAY Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
21st of December 1911 BIRTHDAY Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)
21st of December 1913 BIRTHDAY Arnold Friberg, American illustrator (d. 2010)
21st of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (d. 2010)
21st of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Ivan Generalic, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
21st of December 1915 BIRTHDAY Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
21st of December 1917 BIRTHDAY Heinrich Boll, German writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
21st of December 1917 BIRTHDAY Sophie Masloff, American politician
21st of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Donald Regan, American civil servant (d. 2003)
21st of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and diplomat (d. 2007)
21st of December 1920 BIRTHDAY Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina
21st of December 1920 BIRTHDAY Bob Bindig, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
21st of December 1920 BIRTHDAY Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
21st of December 1921 BIRTHDAY Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (d. 2010)
21st of December 1921 BIRTHDAY John Severin, American comics artist
21st of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (d. 1989)
21st of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist (d. 2005)
21st of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist
21st of December 1926 BIRTHDAY Arnost Lustig, Czech author
21st of December 1926 BIRTHDAY Joe Paterno, American football coach
21st of December 1932 BIRTHDAY Edward Hoagland, American essayist
21st of December 1935 BIRTHDAY John G. Avildsen, American film director
21st of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Yusuf Bey, American activist (d. 2003)
21st of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Phil Donahue, American talk show host
21st of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba
21st of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racecar driver (d. 1967)
21st of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Donald F. Munson, American politician
21st of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Jane Fonda, American actress
21st of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Frank Moorhouse, Australian author
21st of December 1939 BIRTHDAY Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician
21st of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Ray Hildebrand, American singer (Paul & Paula)
21st of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Frank Zappa, American musician (d. 1993)
21st of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Arvi Lind, Finnish news broadcaster
21st of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Hu Jintao, Chinese president
21st of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Reinhard Mey, German singer
21st of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Carla Thomas, American singer
21st of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Andre Arthur. Canadian radio host
21st of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Albert Lee, English guitarist
21st of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Jack Nance, American actor (d. 1996)
21st of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Bill Atkinson, English footballer
21st of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
21st of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
21st of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
21st of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Christopher Keene, American conductor (d. 1995)
21st of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer
21st of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Paco de Lucia, Spanish musician
21st of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
21st of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician
21st of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Dave Kingman, American baseball player
21st of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek politician
21st of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe military figure (d. 1987)
21st of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Jeffrey Katzenberg, American film producer
21st of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Lillebj?rn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
21st of December 1951 BIRTHDAY Nick Gilder, English musician (Sweeney Todd)
21st of December 1952 BIRTHDAY Joaquin Andujar, Dominican baseball player
21st of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Betty Wright, American singer
21st of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Chris Evert, American tennis player
21st of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
21st of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician
21st of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Tom Henke, American baseball player
21st of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian
21st of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (d. 1998)
21st of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Louis Demetrius Alvanis, British pianist
21st of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Andy Van Slyke, American baseball player
21st of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Roger McDowell, American baseball player
21st of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Ryuji Sasai, Japanese video game composer
21st of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Del Wilkes, American pro wrestler
21st of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
21st of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Govinda Ahuja, Indian actor and politician
21st of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Rob Kelly, English football manager
21st of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Fabiana Udenio, Argentine actress
21st of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Joe Kocur, Canadian hockey player
21st of December 1965 BIRTHDAY Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
21st of December 1965 BIRTHDAY Stuart Mitchell, Scottish Composer
21st of December 1965 BIRTHDAY Anke Engelke, German comedian
21st of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor
21st of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Adam Schefter, American sports journalist
21st of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Karri Turner, American actress
21st of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Ervin Johnson, American basketball player
21st of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Fritz Karl, Austrian actor
21st of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia
21st of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Terry Mills, American basketball player
21st of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Mihails Zemlinskis, Latvian footballer
21st of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Julie Delpy, French actress
21st of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Jack Noseworthy, American actor
21st of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Matthieu Chedid, French musician
21st of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Fenton Keogh, Australian celebrity chef
21st of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel)
21st of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Gloria De Piero, English journalist
21st of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Dustin Hermanson, American baseball player
21st of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, Indian politician
21st of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Latroy Hawkins, American baseball player
21st of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Claudia Poll, Costa Rican swimmer
21st of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan opera singer
21st of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Mike Alstott, American football player
21st of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer
21st of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Irakli Alasania, Georgian politician and diplomat
21st of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
21st of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
21st of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Mirela Manjani, Greek javelin thrower
21st of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Lukas Rossi, Canadian rock singer (Rock Star Supernova)
21st of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Toby Rand, Australian singer (Juke Kartel)
21st of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Emiliano Brembilla, Italian swimmer
21st of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Mike Vitar, American actor
21st of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and singer
21st of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Royce Ring, American baseball player
21st of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Lynda Thomas, Mexican singer
21st of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Frankie Abernathy, American actress (d. 2007)
21st of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Cristian Zaccardo, Italian football player
21st of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Charlie Cox, English actor
21st of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Mike Gansey, American basketball player
21st of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Erica Hayden, American journalist and radio personality
21st of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Philip Humber, American baseball player
21st of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist
21st of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Tom Payne, British actor
21st of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Darren Potter, Irish football player
21st of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Jackson Rathbone, American actor
21st of December 1985 BIRTHDAY James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
21st of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Brad Howard, Australian footballer
21st of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Valerie Concepcion, Filipino actress
21st of December 1988 BIRTHDAY Alexa Goddard, British R&B singer
21st of December 1988 BIRTHDAY Yasmin, British DJ and Singer
21st of December 1989 BIRTHDAY Mark Ingram Jr., American football player
21st of December 1989 BIRTHDAY Tamannaah Bhatia, Indian actress
21st of December 0072 DEATH Thomas the Apostle
21st of December 0882 DEATH Hincmar, French bishop (Born 806)
21st of December 1295 DEATH Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (Born c.1221)
21st of December 1308 DEATH Henry I of Hesse (Born 1244)
21st of December 1375 DEATH Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (Born 1313)
21st of December 1504 DEATH Bertold von Henneberg-Romhild, German archbishop and elector (Born 1442)
21st of December 1549 DEATH Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (Born 1492)
21st of December 1579 DEATH Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
21st of December 1597 DEATH Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (Born 1521)
21st of December 1799 DEATH Philip Affleck, British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty (Born 1726)
21st of December 1807 DEATH John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (Born 1725)
21st of December 1824 DEATH James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (Born 1755)
21st of December 1869 DEATH Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (Born 1791)
21st of December 1873 DEATH Francis Garnier, French explorer (Born 1839)
21st of December 1889 DEATH Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (Born 1809)
21st of December 1900 DEATH Roger Wolcott, American politician (Born 1847)
21st of December 1920 DEATH Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian nationalist leader (Born 1856)
21st of December 1933 DEATH Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist (Born 1879)
21st of December 1935 DEATH Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (Born 1890)
21st of December 1937 DEATH Frank B. Kellogg, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1856)
21st of December 1940 DEATH F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (Born 1896)
21st of December 1945 DEATH George S. Patton, American military commander (Born 1885)
21st of December 1957 DEATH Eric Coates, English-born American composer (Born 1886)
21st of December 1958 DEATH Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (Born 1884)
21st of December 1959 DEATH Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (Born 1883)
21st of December 1963 DEATH Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (Born 1882)
21st of December 1964 DEATH Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (Born 1880)
21st of December 1965 DEATH Claude Champagne, Canadian composer (Born 1891)
21st of December 1967 DEATH Stuart Erwin, American actor (Born 1903)
21st of December 1974 DEATH James Henry Govier, British artist (Born 1910)
21st of December 1974 DEATH Richard Long, American actor (Born 1927)
21st of December 1981 DEATH Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (Born 1885)
21st of December 1983 DEATH Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (Born 1919)
21st of December 1987 DEATH John Spence, American musician (No Doubt) (Born 1969)
21st of December 1988 DEATH Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1907)
21st of December 1989 DEATH Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-born British photographer (Born1955)
21st of December 1990 DEATH Clarence Johnson, American aeronautical engineer (Born 1910)
21st of December 1992 DEATH Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (Born 1903)
21st of December 1992 DEATH Albert King, American blues musician (Born 1924)
21st of December 1997 DEATH Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (Born 1976)
21st of December 1998 DEATH Karl Denver, Scottish singer (Born 1931)
21st of December 1998 DEATH Roger Avon, Durham actor (Born 1914)
21st of December 1998 DEATH Ernst Gunther Schenck, German physician (Born 1904)
21st of December 2001 DEATH Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (Born 1934)
21st of December 2003 DEATH Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish businessman (Born 1924)
21st of December 2004 DEATH Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (Born 1925)
21st of December 2005 DEATH Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (Born 1940)
21st of December 2006 DEATH Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey (Born 1914)
21st of December 2006 DEATH Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistanian politician (Born 1940)
21st of December 2007 DEATH Ken Hendricks, American businessman (Born 1941)
21st of December 2010 DEATH Enzo Bearzot, Italian football player and manager (Born 1927)