December 21 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 World Basketball Day.
🌏 Winter Solstice.
🌏 World Sari Day.
🌏 Birthday of the Crossword.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇷 Iran – Yaldo Night.
🇺🇸 USA – National Homeless Remembrance Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Shake and Freeze Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – First President (Saparmurat Niyazov) Memorial Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Armed Forces Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Kiwi Day.
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe – São Tomé Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1140 – Conrad III begins the siege of Weinsberg.
– 1192 – Richard I of England is captured by Duke Leopold V near Vienna.
– 1361 – Spanish Crusaders defeat Muslims at the Battle of Linois.
– 1526 – Assassination of Babur: Ibrahim Lodi’s mother poisons his food.
– 1891 – Students at Springfield College in the United States play the first basketball game in history.
– 1898 – Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium.
– 1898 – The United States establishes military rule in the Philippines.
– 1913 – The first crossword puzzle in history is published in the New York World newspaper.
– 1937 – Walt Disney’s first full-length animated film, “The Seven Dwarfs,” premieres.
– 1945 – The expedition that opened the tomb of Amir Temur completed its work.
– 1957 – The constitution of Honduras was adopted.
– 1958 – Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France.
– 1966 – The USSR launched the interplanetary station “Luna-13”.
– 1988 – The Boeing 747 crashed in Scotland.
– 1991 – The Republic of Uzbekistan joined the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, established in Minsk on December 8, 1991).
– 1991 – The Republic of Sierra Leone recognized the sovereignty of Uzbekistan.
– 2007 – Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Malta joined the “Schengen Agreement”.
– 2012 – For the first time in history, a single video clip was viewed one billion times on YouTube and the Internet.
