December 21 in History

Historical Events on December 21

1919 American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.

1936 First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.

1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.

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.

1970 First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.

1988 A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.

1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

2012 2012 phenomenon: this day was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, leading to widespread expectations of cataclysmic events]] (which failed to happen).

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Famous Birthdays on December 21

1804 Benjamin Disraeli

1937 Jane Fonda

1940 Frank Zappa

1977 Emmanuel Macron

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Famous Deaths on December 21

AD 72 Thomas the Apostle

1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald

1945 George S. Patton

1963 Jack Hobbs

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