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On this day...
1784 John Jay becomes first US Secretary of State
1829 First stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1891 18 students play first basketball game (Springfield College)
1898 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
1913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1914 First feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance,"
released
1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
1929 First US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas
1933 Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania
1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1937 First feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White)
1954 Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered
1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as first P{resident of 5th Rep of France
1959 Citizens of Deerfield Illinois block building of interracial housing
1968 Apollo 8 (Borman-Lovell-Anders) first manned Moon voyage
1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
1978 Police in Des Plaines Illinois, arrested John W. Gacy, Jr. for murder
1979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
1983 Loretta Switt weds Dennis Holahan
1983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 Heart's "Heart" album goes #1
1988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland, all 258 aboard die
1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
1991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery
1991 Ted Turner & Hanoi Jane Fonda wed
Birthdays which occurred on December 21st:
1804 Benjamin Disraeli, British PM (1868, 1874-80)
1872 Albert P. Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
1874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, President of Nicaragua (1932-36)
1879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator
1891 John W McCormack, Speaker of the House (1962-70)
1892 Dame Rebecca West, journalist/novelist/critic/feminist (or 12/25)
1892 Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914,19)
1905 Anthony Powell, England, novelist (Infants of the Spring)
1908 Pat Weaver, Los Angeles, TV executive, started Today show
1909 George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state
1911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HR's)
1917 Alicia Alonso, Havana, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)
1917 Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight)
1918 Donald Regan, US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)
1918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81), Austrian Pres./Nazi
1919 Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic Gold-1948, 52, 56)
1922 Paul Winchell, NY, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)
1924 Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State)
1926 Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares TX, actor (Rio Bravo)
1928 Ed Nelson, New Orleans, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)
1931 David Baker, Indianapolis, composer (Reflections)
1935 Phil Donahue, Cleveland, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show)
1937 Jane Fonda, NY, actress and pacifist (Hanoi Jane)
1938 Larry Bryggman, Concord CA, actor (John-As the World Turns)
1940 Frank Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls)
1944 Jared Martin, NY, actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas)
1946 Carl Wilson, rocker (Beachboys)
1948 Barry Gordon, Brookline Massachusetts, actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place)
1948 Carol Potter, NY, actress (Maggie Clinton-Today's FBI)
1948 Dave Kingman, baseball player
1953 Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974)
1953 Arie Luyendyk, Netherlands, Indy-car racer
1954 Chris Evert, Ft. Lauderdale, tennis pro
1957 Joshua Mostel, NYC, actor (Delta House, At Ease)
1957 Lisa Gerritsen, Lps Angeles, actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1959 Florence Griffith Joyner, Los Angeles, runner
1960 Roger McDowell, major league baseball pitcher
1968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara CA, actress (Simone-Head of the Class)
Deaths which occurred on December 21st:
1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, dies of a heart attack in Hollywood at 44
1945 George S. Patton, General, dies in a car accident in Heidelberg Germany
1955 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65
1972 Horace Mann Bond, President of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
1983 Rod Cameron, actor dies at 73
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