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Historical Events
on December 21st
- Lead Story
- Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland,1988
- American Revolution
- Patriot Robert Barnwell is born,1761
- Automotive
- "The Graduate" opens in New York; makes Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider famous,1967
- Civil War
- Trent crisis escalates,1861
- Cold War
- Soviet republics proclaim the Commonwealth of Independent States,1991
- Crime
- Sunny von Bulow is found comatose,1980
- Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland,1988
- Disaster
- Earthquake sends tsunami toward Japan,1946
- General Interest
- De Gaulle elected,1958
- Apollo 8 departs for moon's orbit,1968
- Carlos the Jackal attacks OPEC headquarters,1975
- Hollywood
- Russell Crowe stars in A Beautiful Mind,2001
- Literary
- William Wordsworth moves into Dove Cottage,1799
- Music
- Harry Chapin earns a #1 hit with "Cat's In The Cradle",1985
- Old West
- Indians massacre Fetterman and eighty soldiers,1866
- Presidential
- Nixon meets Elvis Presley,1970
- Sports
- Hobey Baker killed in plane crash,1918
- Vietnam War
- Thailand announces plans to withdraw troops,1969
- Defense Department reports eight B-52s lost during Linebacker II,1972
- World War I
- Sir William Robertson is appointed chief of the Imperial General Staff,1915
- World War II
- "Old Blood and Guts" dies,1945
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