Notable Historical Events on December 21st
December 21st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1163 |
Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods |
1561 |
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Archbishop of Mechelen, made Cardinal |
1582 |
Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583 |
1598 |
Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish 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". |
1620 |
103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock [OS=Dec 11] |
1650 |
Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht |
1784 |
John Jay becomes 1st US Secretary of State (foreign affairs) |
1788 |
Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam |
1829 |
1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore |
1835 |
HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand) |
1844 |
The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. |
1849 |
1st US skating club formed (Phila) |
1864 |
General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia |
1866 |
Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre |
1890 |
Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht" |
1891 |
18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College) |
1894 |
Mackenzie Bowell becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Canada |
1898 |
Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium |
1900 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer" premieres in Berlin |
1906 |
British Parliament pass two important pieces of social legislation: The Trades Disputes Bill, legalizing peaceful picketing, and The Workingmen's Compensation Act, broadening employers' liability for accidents |
1907 |
Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget |
1909 |
1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) |
1909 |
Clyde Fitch' "City" premieres in NYC |
1909 |
U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
1910 |
Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies |
1912 |
Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war |
1913 |
1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World |
1914 |
"Tillie's Punctured Romance" 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts |
1914 |
1st feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin) |
1914 |
2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances |
1915 |
10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record) |
1918 |
Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000 |
1919 |
J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia |
1920 |
Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally" premieres in NYC |
1921 |
Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional |
1923 |
Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation |
1925 |
Eisenstein's movie Battleship Potemkin premieres in Moscow |
1925 |
Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against NZ |
1926 |
Soccer team DOS Struggle forms |
1929 |
1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx) |
1932 |
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) |
1932 |
Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach |
1933 |
Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania |
1933 |
Fox Films signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract |
1933 |
Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain |
1936 |
Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80 |
1937 |
1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White) |
1937 |
O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Aust |
1937 |
The first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre |
1939 |
Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B" |
1941 |
Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point |
1941 |
Chicago bears win the NFL championship |
1941 |
David Diamond's 1st Symphony premieres |
1941 |
German submarine U-567 sinks |
1941 |
Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears) |
1942 |
US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal |
1944 |
Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP |
1945 |
"Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances |
1945 |
Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby" premieres in NYC |
1946 |
"If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances |
1946 |
Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086 |
1946 |
Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premieres |
1946 |
Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show" premieres in Indianapolis |
1948 |
O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place |
1948 |
State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence |
1949 |
Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia |
1950 |
Cole Porte's musical "Out of this World" premieres at New Century Theater NYC for 157 perfs |
1951 |
Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement |
1952 |
Broadway Tunnel opens in SF |
1952 |
WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Indonesia proclaims end to state of war |
1958 |
Charles de Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France |
1959 |
10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7") |
1959 |
Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing |
1959 |
Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988) |
1961 |
Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy" |
1961 |
JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda |
1961 |
Gangster Joe Gallo is sentenced to 7 to 14 years in state prison for extortion |
1962 |
Angolin leaves Comecon |
1962 |
US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive |
1966 |
USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum |
1968 |
Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage |
1968 |
David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in Calif |
1969 |
Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show) |
1969 |
Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game |
1970 |
WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General |
1971 |
A publican is killed as he tried to remove a bomb from his pub, Northern Ireland |
1972 |
Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany |
1973 |
Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict |
1974 |
"The Sea of Hands", Raiders RB Clarence Davis somehow catches game-winning touchdown pass among "the sea of hands" of three Dolphins defenders with 24 seconds left in the game, eliminating Miami from the playoffs after they had made it to the Super Bowl in each of the last 3 seasons |
1975 |
"Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances |
1975 |
"Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances |
1975 |
1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) |
1975 |
64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2) |
1975 |
Madagascar adopts constitution |
1975 |
Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57 |
1976 |
20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins |
1976 |
Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD |
1976 |
UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1978 |
"Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC |
1978 |
Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy for murder |
1979 |
Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979 |
New constitution for Zimbabwe agreed |
1980 |
Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
1981 |
Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record) |
1983 |
Musical "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances |
1983 |
NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak |
1983 |
NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule |
1984 |
Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0 |
1984 |
USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come |
1985 |
ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA |
1985 |
Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
1985 |
Heart's "Heart" album goes #1 |
1986 |
Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
1987 |
3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man |
1987 |
Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir |
1987 |
Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched |
1988 |
Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine |
1988 |
Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien |
1988 |
Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by a terrorist bomb killing all 258 on board over Scotland |
1989 |
VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon |
1990 |
Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA |
1991 |
95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996) |
1991 |
El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane |
1991 |
Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States |
1992 |
Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die |
1994 |
Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC |
1995 |
Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup |
1995 |
SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000 |
1995 |
The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. |
1996 |
Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning |
1997 |
Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season |
1997 |
Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game |
1997 |
Lexus Senior Golf Challenge |
1997 |
Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges |
1999 |
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. |
2005 |
Joe Sakic is named captain of the 2006 Team Canada Olympic team |
2006 |
Puzzle Play aired to network Ten, replacing In the Box |
2007 |
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. |
2012 |
39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya |
2012 |
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar reaches the date 13.0.0.0.0 |
2012 |
"Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube |
2012 |
The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 brining the total number of cancelled games to 625 |
2015 |
Motorcycle bomb kills 6 NATO service members |
2015 |
Grand jury decides against indictments in Sandra Bland case |
2015 |
FDA lifts lifetime ban on gay men donating blood |
2015 |
Hezbollah vows revenge on Israel after death of senior militant Samir Kuntar |
2015 |
Iranians hacked into New York dam |
2016 |
Volkswagen Agrees to Buy Back or Fix Remaining Diesel Cars |
2016 |
Explosion at Fireworks Market in Mexico Kills at Least 27 |
2016 |
Islamic state claims responsibility for Berlin truck attack |
2016 |
At Least 20 Reported Dead as Congolese Security Forces Fire on Protesters |
2016 |
US EPA estimates new VW diesel settlement worth about $1 billion |
2016 |
Turkey tells US that cleric Gulen was behind Russian diplomat's killing |
2016 |
Obama bans oil drilling 'permanently' in millions of acres of ocean |
2017 |
Car slams into pedestrians in 'deliberate act' in Melbourne, at least 14 injured |
2017 |
South Korea fires warning shots after North soldier defects |
Keep in touch with us:
beta testing:
nothing here now
