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21st December
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Born on this day
1118 Thomas Becket 1682 Calico Jack Rackham 1804 Benjamin Disraeli 1879 Joseph Stalin 1892 Dame Rebecca West 1921 William Reid V.C 1940 Frank Zappa 1946 Carl Wilson 1959 Florence Griffith Joyner 1937 Jane Fonda 1948 Samuel L Jackson 1954 Chris Evert 1982 Charlie Cox 1982 Tom Payne Music 1956 The rock and roll movies 'Shake Rattle & Roll' and 'Rock Rock Rock' went on general release in the UK 1967 Half A Sixpence starring Tommy Steele premiered in London 1974 Mud reached No.1 with 'Lonely This Christmas' 1985 Lionel Richie's 'Say You, Say Me' topped the US chart for the first of 4 weeks, giving him a record for writing a no. 1 single each year for 9 years Sport 1963 Leeds Rugby Club became the first to use under-soil heating during their game against Dewsbury People & Showbiz 1937 Walt Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' premiered in Los Angeles, becoming the first ever full length talking cartoon 1982 38 year old Sherry Lansing, the most powerful woman in Hollywood, resigned from her post as head of production for Twentieth Century Fox 1984 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie christened Prince Henry Charles Albert David in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. Princess Anne and Capt Mark Phillips did not attend the 20 minute service General Events 1620 The Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts in the Mayflower 1846 Aneathestic was used for the first time in a British operation when Robert Liston performed an amputation of a leg at University College Hospital in London 1880 An act passed by the House of Keys on the Isle of Man granted women the vote, but only if they were widows or spinsters with property rated annually at £4 or over 1882 Britains first permanent telephone trunk line was established between London and Brighton 1911 The Jules Bonnot gang escaped from a bank robbery in Paris with the first recorded use of a getaway car 1958 Charles De Gaulle was elected President of France 1991 The Soviet Union was officially dissolved when leaders of 11 former Soviet republics signed a declaration founding a Commonwealth of Independent States, abolishing Mikhail Gorbachev's position as Soviet President 1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. 2007 The Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on land and sea borders. |
