Today in History for 22nd December 2021

Historical Events

1216 - Pope Honorius III delegates decree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1923 - Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1939 - Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1947 - Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1974 - Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb home of former UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath, just before announcing Christmas ceasefire
1983 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat

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Famous Birthdays

1819 - Franz Abt, German composer and choir conductor, born in Eilenburg, Germany (d. 1885)
1881 - Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 1922)
1903 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American biophysicist (Nobel 1967), born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1983)
1905 - Pierre Brasseur [Espinasse], French actor (Eyes Without a Face, Children of Paradise), born in Paris, France (d. 1972)
1942 - Dick Parry, English session and touring rock saxophonist (Pink Floyd - "Money"), born in Kentford, Suffolk
1961 - Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko, Russian cosmonaut (1st person to marry in space), born in Khrushchev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

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Famous Deaths

1788 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
1828 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium), dies at 62
1969 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75
1996 - Hetta Empson, South African-British artist, dies at 81
1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
2006 - Dennis Linde, American songwriter (b. 1943)

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