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Birthday December 21, 1761 Patriot Robert Barnwell is born |
Birthday December 21, 1804 Benjamin Disraeli (Tory), British prime minister (1868, 1874-80) |
Birthday December 21, 1874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36) |
Birthday December 21, 1879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator |
Birthday December 21, 1891 John W McCormack, (D), Speaker of the House (1962-70) |
Birthday December 21, 1909 George Ball, former undersecretary of state |
Birthday December 21, 1911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" |
Birthday December 21, 1917 Heinrich Boll, German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel '72) |
Birthday December 21, 1918 Donald Regan, White House staffer |
Birthday December 21, 1918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec-gen (1972-81), Austrian Pres, Nazi |
Birthday December 21, 1922 Paul Winchell, ventriloquist |
Birthday December 21, 1935 Phil Donahue, TV host |
Birthday December 21, 1937 Jane Fonda NYC, Actress (Barbarella, Klute) |
Birthday December 21, 1939 Diane Lennon, in LA |
Birthday December 21, 1940 Frank Zappa, rock singer (Grateful Dead) |
Birthday December 21, 1944 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor |
Birthday December 21, 1948 Dave Kingman, Baseball player |
Birthday December 21, 1954 Chris Evert Lloyd, Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface' |
History December 21, 1375 Boccaccio author of Decameron dies |
History December 21, 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock |
History December 21, 1790 Samuel Slater opens 1st textile factory in US in Rhode Island |
History December 21, 1799 William Wordsworth moves into Dove Cottage |
History December 21, 1861 Trent crisis escalates |
History December 21, 1866 Indians massacre Fetterman and eighty soldiers |
History December 21, 1909 U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
History December 21, 1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World |
History December 21, 1915 Sir William Robertson is appointed chief of the Imperial General Staff |
History December 21, 1918 Hobey Baker killed in plane crash |
History December 21, 1929 1st group hospital insurance plan effected Dallas Tx |
History December 21, 1933 Human blood serum 1st prepared |
History December 21, 1937 1st feature-length cartoon with color & sound premieres (Snow White) |
History December 21, 1945 Old Blood and Guts dies |
History December 21, 1946 Earthquake sends tsunami toward Japan |
History December 21, 1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF |
History December 21, 1954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn was murdered |
History December 21, 1958 De Gaulle elected |
History December 21, 1967 The Graduate opens in New York; makes Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider famous |
History December 21, 1968 Apollo 8 departs for moon's orbit |
History December 21, 1968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned moon voyage |
History December 21, 1969 Thailand announces plans to withdraw troops |
History December 21, 1970 Nixon meets Elvis Presley |
History December 21, 1972 Defense Department reports eight B-52s lost during Linebacker II |
History December 21, 1973 Israel Egypt Syria Jordan US & USSR meet in Geneva |
History December 21, 1975 Carlos the Jackal attacks OPEC headquarters |
History December 21, 1976 20th Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins |
History December 21, 1980 Sunny von Bulow is found comatose |
History December 21, 1984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win - Whalers 1-0 |
History December 21, 1985 Harry Chapin earns a #1 hit with Cat's In The Cradle |
History December 21, 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland |
History December 21, 1991 Soviet republics proclaim the Commonwealth of Independent States |
History December 21, 1996 Curious George co-creator Margret Rey dies |
History December 21, 2001 Russell Crowe stars in A Beautiful Mind |