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Events on the 21st of December in history

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21 Dec 2069 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.
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21 Dec 1124 Pope Honorius II is elected.
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21 Dec 1140 Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
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21 Dec 1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
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21 Dec 1237 The city of Ryazan is sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan.
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21 Dec 1361 The Battle of Linuesa is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdom of Castile and of Jaén resulting in a Castilian victory.
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21 Dec 1561 Archbishop Granvelle installed
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21 Dec 1582 Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
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21 Dec 1598 Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
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21 Dec 1620 Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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21 Dec 1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
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21 Dec 1650 Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
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21 Dec 1688 Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
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21 Dec 1762 James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
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21 Dec 1784 John Jay becomes 1st US Secretary of State (foreign affairs)
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21 Dec 1788 Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
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21 Dec 1826 American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
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21 Dec 1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
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21 Dec 1832 Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
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21 Dec 1835 HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
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21 Dec 1844 The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
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21 Dec 1849 1st US skating club formed (Philadelphia)
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21 Dec 1861 Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
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21 Dec 1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah
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21 Dec 1866 Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
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21 Dec 1872 Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.
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21 Dec 1879 World première of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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21 Dec 1883 The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed: .
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21 Dec 1890 Pim Mulier 1st and only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
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21 Dec 1890 Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
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21 Dec 1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
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21 Dec 1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium
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21 Dec 1900 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer" premieres in Berlin
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21 Dec 1907 The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
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21 Dec 1907 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
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21 Dec 1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley, California)
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21 Dec 1909 University of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
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21 Dec 1909 Clyde Fitch's "City" premieres in New York NY
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21 Dec 1910 An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
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21 Dec 1910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
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21 Dec 1912 Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
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21 Dec 1913 Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
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21 Dec 1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World
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21 Dec 1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released (starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
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21 Dec 1915 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
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21 Dec 1915 25.83 cm (10.17") of rainfall, Glenora OR (state record)
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21 Dec 1918 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell and Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters and $15,000
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21 Dec 1919 American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
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21 Dec 1919 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
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21 Dec 1920 Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally" premieres in New York NY
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21 Dec 1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
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21 Dec 1923 United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816.
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21 Dec 1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
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21 Dec 1925 Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
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21 Dec 1925 Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against New Zealand
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21 Dec 1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
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21 Dec 1929 1st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas TX
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21 Dec 1932 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
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21 Dec 1932 Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
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21 Dec 1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania
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21 Dec 1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
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21 Dec 1933 20th Century Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
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21 Dec 1936 First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
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21 Dec 1936 Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80
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21 Dec 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
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21 Dec 1937 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Disney's Snow White)
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21 Dec 1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, New South Wales vs South Australia
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21 Dec 1939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
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21 Dec 1941 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
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21 Dec 1941 Chicago bears win the NFL championship
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21 Dec 1941 Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
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21 Dec 1941 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, Thailand.
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21 Dec 1941 Chicago Bears win the NFL championship, Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
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21 Dec 1941 David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
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21 Dec 1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
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21 Dec 1942 US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
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21 Dec 1944 Cardinals' Marty Marion wins National League MVP
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21 Dec 1945 "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
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21 Dec 1945 Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby" premieres at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
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21 Dec 1946 "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances
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21 Dec 1946 An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.
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21 Dec 1946 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
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21 Dec 1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premieres
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21 Dec 1946 Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show" premieres in Indianapolis
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21 Dec 1948 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erroneously renamed O'Neill Place
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21 Dec 1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
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21 Dec 1949 Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
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21 Dec 1950 "Out of This World" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 157 performances
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21 Dec 1950 Cole Porter's musical "Out of this World" premieres at New Century Theater NYC for 157 performances
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21 Dec 1951 Libya becomes an independent country.
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21 Dec 1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
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21 Dec 1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in San Francisco
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21 Dec 1952 WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Dec 1953 KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC / PBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Dec 1954 Dr Sam Sheppard is convicted of his wife, Marilyn's murder
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21 Dec 1957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
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21 Dec 1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Republic of France
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21 Dec 1959 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
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21 Dec 1959 Citizens of Deerfield IL block building of interracial housing
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21 Dec 1959 Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
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21 Dec 1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
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21 Dec 1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" and"Ready Teddy"
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21 Dec 1961 JFK and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda
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21 Dec 1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
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21 Dec 1961 JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda
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21 Dec 1962 Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
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21 Dec 1962 Angolin leaves Comecon
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21 Dec 1962 US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
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21 Dec 1963 The episode of intercommunal violence called "Bloody Christmas" begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000-30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages.
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21 Dec 1966 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
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21 Dec 1967 Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
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21 Dec 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
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21 Dec 1968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell & Bill Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
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21 Dec 1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in California
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21 Dec 1969 The United Nations adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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21 Dec 1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
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21 Dec 1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
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21 Dec 1970 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting
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21 Dec 1971 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th Secretary General
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21 Dec 1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
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21 Dec 1973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and the USSR meet in Geneva
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21 Dec 1973 The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.
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21 Dec 1975 "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances
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21 Dec 1975 "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
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21 Dec 1975 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
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21 Dec 1975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Capitals 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Capitals in 4:57
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21 Dec 1975 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
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21 Dec 1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
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21 Dec 1976 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
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21 Dec 1976 Patricia R Harris named Secretary of HUD
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21 Dec 1976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
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21 Dec 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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21 Dec 1978 "Broadway Musical" opens / closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, New York City
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21 Dec 1978 "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
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21 Dec 1978 Police in Des Plaines IL, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder
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21 Dec 1979 Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Peter Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
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21 Dec 1979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
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21 Dec 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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21 Dec 1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
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21 Dec 1980 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
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21 Dec 1981 Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
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21 Dec 1983 "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances
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21 Dec 1983 Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in New York City
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21 Dec 1983 Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
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21 Dec 1983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
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21 Dec 1983 Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with Hinton Battle premieres at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances
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21 Dec 1983 NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
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21 Dec 1984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
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21 Dec 1984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Comet
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21 Dec 1985 Alice Miller / Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
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21 Dec 1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, Washington
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21 Dec 1985 Heart's "Heart" album goes #1
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21 Dec 1986 Amy Alcott / Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
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21 Dec 1986 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
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21 Dec 1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 Cosmonauts to space station Mir
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21 Dec 1987 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched
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21 Dec 1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
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21 Dec 1987 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts (Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko & Vladimir Titov) to space station Mir
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21 Dec 1988 New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
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21 Dec 1988 A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
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21 Dec 1988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
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21 Dec 1988 New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet (Flight 103) explodes over Scotland, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground
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21 Dec 1988 Vladimir Titov, Anatoly Levchenko & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
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21 Dec 1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (he is executed 12/25)
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21 Dec 1989 US invades Panam
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21 Dec 1989 Vice-President Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
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21 Dec 1990 Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464 partnership for New South Wales vs Western Australia
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21 Dec 1991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
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21 Dec 1991 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
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21 Dec 1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
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21 Dec 1991 US actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner
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21 Dec 1992 A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.
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21 Dec 1992 Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
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21 Dec 1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street, New York City
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21 Dec 1994 Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
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21 Dec 1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
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21 Dec 1995 Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
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21 Dec 1995 San Francisco Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
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21 Dec 1996 Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
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21 Dec 1997 Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
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21 Dec 1997 Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
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21 Dec 1997 Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
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21 Dec 1997 Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge
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21 Dec 1997 Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
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21 Dec 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, Spain.
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21 Dec 2004 Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
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