December 21
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Events
- 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian becomes the fourth Emperor of Rome within a year.
- 1620 - Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- 1768 - The Unification of Nepal
- 1958 - French presidential election: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France
- 1971 - The United Nations Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General.
- 1988 - Lockerbie Bombing: bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
- 1989 - The Romanian Revolution of 1989 moves from Timişoara to Bucharest.
Births
- 1118 - Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
- 1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
- 1879 - Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
- 1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian United Nations Secretary-General and Federal President of Austria (d. 2007)
- 1935 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim activist (d. 2003)
- 1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and political activist
- 1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor and former Black Panther
- 1967 - Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian politician
Deaths
- 1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
- 1942 - Franz Boas, Jewish American anthopologist (b. 1858)
- 1945 - George S. Patton, U.S. general (b. 1885)
