International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted. Date: December 21, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant. Date: December 21, 1967 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1967 📅 On This Day (Today)
Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans. Date: December 21, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens. Date: December 21, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara. Date: December 21, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today)
A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur on British soil. Date: December 21, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1988 📅 On This…
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The leaders of 11 now effectively autonomous Soviet republics sign the Alma-Ata Protocol establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States in place of the collapsing Soviet Union. Date: December 21, 1991 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1991 📅 On…
A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, Portugal, killing 56. Date: December 21, 1992 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1992 📅 On This Day (Today)
The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. Date: December 21, 1995 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1995 📅 On This Day (Today)
Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18. Date: December 21, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)