21 December

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The 21st o December is the 355t day o the year (356t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 10 days bidin.

Events

1962: Norawa's Rondane Naitional Pairk in Winter

69 - Vespasian becomes Roman Emperor.
1471 - The island o Sao Tomé off the coast o Gabon, Africae, is claimed for Portugal bi Joao de Santarém.
1880 - The Isle o Man allows weemen tae vote.
1898 - Marie Curie an Pierre Curie discover radium.
1910 - An unnergroond splosion at Hulton Bank Colliery in Westhoughton, then-pairt o Lancashire, Northwast Ingland, kills 344 miners.
1913 - The first crossword puzzle appears in the New York World newspaper.
1937 - Premiere o Walt Disney's Snow White an the Seven Dwarfs.
1958 - Charles de Gaulle is electit Preses o Fraunce.
1962 - Norawa's first naitional pairk, the Rondane Naitional Pairk, is creatit.
1968 - Launch o Apollo 8.
1988 - Pan Am Flicht 103 explodes ower Lockerbie, Dumfries an Gallowa, killin 270 fowk.
2007 - Estonie, Latvie, Lithuanie, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakie, Hungary, Slovenie an Malta join the Schengen Area.
2012 - End o the Mayan Long Coont Calendar.
2014 - Beji Caid Essebsi is electit Preses o Tunisie.
2015 - Sepp Blatter an Michel Platini are banned frae fitbaa for 8 year ower corruption at FIFA.
2017 - Catalonie haulds regional elections; The pro-unthirldom coaleetion o pairties retains its oweraw majority.
2017 - Birmingham gets the richt tae host the 2022 Commonweel Gemmes.

Births

1118 - Thomas Becket, Inglis airchbeeshop (d. 1170)
1401 - Masaccio, Italian penter (d. 1428)
1773 - Robert Brown, Scots botanist (d. 1858)
1777 - John Campbell, 7t Duke o Argyll, Scots peer an politeecian (d. 1847)
1795 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1799 - David Don, Scots botanist (d. 1841)
1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1881)
1805 - Thomas Graham, Scots chemist (d. 1869)
1818 - Charles Stuart, 12t Laird Blantyre, Scots politeecian an laundawner (d. 1900)
1879 − Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (d. 1953)
1892 - Rebecca West, Inglis writer (d. 1983)
1917 - Heinrich Böll, German writer (d. 1985)
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrick politeecian an diplomat (d. 2007)
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress
1939 - Alan Anderson, Scots fitbawer
1940 - Frank Zappa, American muisicker (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, umwhile Preses o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
1947 - Paco de Lucia, Spaingie guitarist (d. 2014)
1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
1949 - Thomas Sankara, Preses o Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
1950 - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American film studio executive an producer
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (d. 1998)
1965 - Andy Dick, American comedian, actor an producer
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor
1967 - Mikheil Saakashvili, umwhile Preses o Georgie
1972 - Kirsten Oswald, Scots politeecian
1975 - Charles Michel, Preses o the European Cooncil an umwhile Prime meenister o Belgium
1977 - Emmanuel Macron, Preses o Fraunce

Daiths

1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b. 1313)
1839 - St. Andrew Dung Lac, Vietnamese mairtyr (b. 1795)
1926 - Harold Raeburn, Scots muntaineer (b. 1865)
1937 - Frank B. Kellogg, 45t Unitit States Secretar o State (b. 1856)
1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
1945 - George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)
1968 - James Kennaway, Scots novelist an screenwriter (b. 1928)
2006 - Saparmurat Niyazov, Preses o Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2014 - Udo Jürgens, Austrick sangster (b. 1934)
2017 - Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (b. 1937)
2018 - Tom Leonard, Scots poet; b. 1944

Halidays

Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Winter solstice

Winter Solstice (Northren Hemisphere), can also be on 22 December
Simmer Solstice (Soothren Hemisphere), can also be on 22 December
The 21st o December is the feast day o the follaein saunts:

St. Peter Canisius

Bl. Adrian

St. Anastasius XII

St. Andrew Dung Lac

St. Themistoeles

St. Severinus

St. Glycerius

St. Honoratus o Toulouse

SS. John & Festus

St. John Vincent

St. Thomas the Apostle

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21 December

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Halidays