What happend on 21st December

20.12
22.12
2002

Vancouver, British Columbia city council declares "D.O.A. Day" in observance of the Canadian punk band D.O.A.'s decades of influence and accomplishments.

2001

Japanese television performer Masashi Tashiro got No. 1 temporarily in the Internet vote of Time's Person of the Year.

1999

The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives intended by ETA to blow down Torre Picasso.

1988

A terrorist bomb explodes and crashes Pan Am flight 103 a Boeing 747, over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground

1987

The passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1; well over 1,000 die.

1983

Former U.S. President Gerald Ford guest-stars as himself on the prime-time soap opera Dynasty.

1979

The Lancaster House Agreement was signed, effectively ending the white rule in Rhodesia under Ian Smith.

1979

The United States government bails out the Chrysler Corporation

1968

Apollo 8 launched

1962

Rondane National Park, the first national park in Norway, was established.