On December 21st

20 PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 21ST

918 Conrad I, German King and Duke of Franconia
1375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet
1597 Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit saint, aged 76
1674 Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, 66
1736 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect, aged 451864 William Henry Fry, composer, 51 1890 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish composer, aged 73
1906 Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, 58 1928 Harry Butt, English cricketer, wicket-keeper1940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author, died of a heart attack aged 44 1945 George S Patton, World War Two U.S. General killed in car crash aged 60 1955 Dorothy Bernard, actress, 65 1957 Eric Coates, composer, 71
1958 Harry Byron (HB) Warner, actor, aged 83 1963 Jack Hobbs, English cricketer
1967 Stuart Erwin, actor, dies of heart attack aged 64
1974 Richard Long, actor, 47 1980 Marc Connelly, playwright, aged 90
1983 Rod Cameron, actor 73 1992 Stella Adler, U.S. actress, 90


20 PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED IN THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 21ST

1117 Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury
1537 Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)
1804 Benjamin Disraeli, British Tory Prime Minister (1868, 1874-80)
1879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator murdered 11,000,000 during his reign1913 Raich Carter, English footballer
1918 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President, Nazi, 4th United Nations Secretary General 1928 Ed Nelson, New Orleans Louisiana actor 1937 Jane Fonda, New York City, actress 1940 Frank Zappa, Baltimore, rock musician 1940 Ray Hildebrand, (Paul), Texas, singer (Hey Paula) 1946 Carl Dean Wilson, Hawthorne California, rock vocalist 1948 Samuel L Jackson, actor
1953 Betty Wright, American gospel singer
1954 Chris Evert, Fort Lauderdale Texas, tennis pro 1957 Lisa Gerritsen, Los Angeles California, actress 1959 Florence Griffith Joyner, Los Angeles California, athlete 1962 Christy Forester, Lookout Mountain Georgia, country singer1968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, California, actress
1969 Julie Delpy, actress1978 Michael Vitar, Los Angeles California, actor

IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 21ST

1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland and Friesland, causing devastating floods
1582 Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar
1620 The Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1835 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard sails into the Bay of Islands New Zealand
1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium1910 An Explosion in a coal mine in Hulton England kills 344 mine workers1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in the Comende war1913 The 1st 32 clue crossword puzzle was printed in New York World1919 J Edgar Hoover deported anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman to Russia1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to an independent nation1925 Eisenstein's movie the battleship Potemkin premieres in Moscow 1933 20th century Fox signs Shirley Temple aged 5 to a studio contract
1937 Snow White the 1st feature length color and sound cartoon premiered 1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premiered
1946 An Earthquake in Southern Japan, kills 1,086 1948 State of Eire formerly called the Irish Free State declared its independence
1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered and the Dr is accused of the crime
1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France
1959 10th largest snowfall in New York City’s history 13.7" 1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13 for soft-landing in Oceanus Procellarum
1968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) the 1st manned Moon voyage launched1971 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
1976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 the Year of Child 1978 Police in Des Plaines Illinois arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder 1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution 1988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie Scotland all 258 aboard die
1989 Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with the word beacon spelled beakon 1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States 1991 95 ticket holders share in the Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery
1992 Dutch DC-10 caught fire on landing at Faro Airport Portugal, 56 die
1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street station New York City