December 21, 2010
Nacimientos:
| 1401 | Masaccio, ‘Florentine’ painter |
| 1804 | Benjamin Disraeli, British politician |
| 1879 | Joseph Stalin, Russian revolutionary leader |
| 1935 | Geoff Lewis, Former jockey turned trainer |
| 1937 | Jane Fonda, Actress; daughter of Henry Fonda & sister of Peter Fonda |
| 1946 | Carl Wilson, Of the Pop group ‘The Beach Boys’ |
| 1954 | Chris Evert, Wimbledon tennis champion of 1974 and 1981 |
| 1978 | Greville Starkey (1939), English jockey and ‘Derby’ winner |
Acontecimientos:
| 1620 | The ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ historic landing took place at Plymouth, in Massachusetts, in the vessel Mayflower |
| 1879 | Ibsens classic play, ‘The Dolls House’, was first performed at the Royal Theatre, in Copenhagen |
| 1913 | The first ever crossword was published, in the weekend supplement of the ‘New York World’ |
| 1937 | Walt Disney’s animation ‘Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs’ premiered in Los Angeles |
| 1945 | The US General George Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, as the result of a road accident |
| 1958 | Charles de Gaulle was elected, as President of France |
| 1986 | Over 50,000 students demonstrated in Shanghai’s Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China |
| 1988 | After a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut returned to Earth |
