The December 21st is the 355e Jour of the Année (356e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 10 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

  •    842: Marriage with Quierzy-on-Oise of Charles the Bald person with Ermentrude of Orleans.
  • 1163 : Netherlands: Flood of the Saint-Thomas, stopping of the the Old Rhine with Katwijk.
  • 1791 : Austria: Léopold II makes disperse the emigrants of Trier, but renews the Déclaration of Pillnitz.
  • 1832 : Alliance Russo-Othoman. Nicolas Ier of Russia assistance the sultan in war against the Egyptians in Palestine and Syria, in order to prevent the emergence of a strong capacity to the the Middle East.
  • 1851 : Votes by plebiscite, approved by the French, granting to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte the constituent capacity and the presidency for 10 years.
  • 1866 : Massacre Fetterman, or Battle off has Hundred Slain. Attracted by a trick of the Sioux, Fetterman and his detachment are massacred; there are 81 died.
  • 1880 : With Paris, Camille Sée, appointed Republican left, makes adopt the law on the teaching of the young girls: “The girls are as suited as the boys to receive secondary education”.
  • 1891 : The first match of the history of the Basket-ball disputes with the college of Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie discovers the Radium.

1901 to 2000

  • 1901 : In Norway, first participation of the women in the communal elections.
  • 1903 : John-Antoine Nau receives the first Prix Goncourt.
  • 1909 : Robert Peary is recognized like the conqueror of the North pole.
  • 1912 : With Paris, First of made Advertisement with Marie , of Paul Claudel.
  • 1913 : The first grid of cross Words.
  • 1921 : Inauguration with Calcutta (India) of the Victoria Memorial , large marble building, combining British architecture and architecture moghole, built at the instigation of the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, in memory of the queen Victoria, who is today one of the most impressive vestiges of the British presence with Calcutta.
  • 1925 : The Muscovites discover the first chief of work of a scenario writer of twenty-seven years, Sergueï Eisenstein. The film is entitled the Battleship Potemkine and reports a mutiny which proceeded twenty years earlier.
  • 1929 : Opening of the Indian National congress .
  • 1933 : Newfoundland becomes colony of the British Couronne.
  • 1942 : The Royal Air Force bombards Munich; British VIIIe armed re-occupies Benghazi in Libya.
  • 1951 : The studios Walt Disney leave to France Alice to the country the wonders .
  • 1953 : The former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh is condemned to death, before its sorrow is not commuted at three years by the Chah.
  • 1956 : with Montgomery, in Alabama, White and Blacks take the bus together for the first time.
  • 1958 : Charles de Gaulle is elected President of the French Republic and establishes the Fifth Republic.
  • 1960 : Saudi Arabia: resignation of the emir Fayçal, Prime Minister; the king Saoud takes the head of the government.
  • 1961 : Moïse Tshombe agrees to put an end to the secession Katanga.
  • 1963 : The second chain of French Télévision starts to emit.
  • 1967 : The South-African Louis Washkanski , first grafted of the heart, dies in the Cape 18 days after the operation.
  • 1971 : Birth of " Doctors without borders ".
  • 1972 : with Berlin, signature of the Basic Treaty between the two German States.
  • 1973 : The first Israeli-Arab conference of peace opens with Geneva, with calls of the the United States and Soviet Union in favor of a Pacific regulation with the the Middle East.
  • 1983 :
    • Attack against French soldiers of FINUL to the Lebanon Southern. Assessment: 10 died, of which a French soldier, and 110 wounded.
    • Adoption of a Bill on the higher education.
  • 1985 :
  • 1987 : A Soviet publication reveals that Stalin censured the figures of census, in the Thirties, in order to dissimulate million deaths caused by bad harvests.
  • 1988 : a Boeing 747 of PANAM explodes in flight and is crushed on the Scottish small town of Lockerbie: 269 died, the 28 the thesis of the attack is confirmed.
  • 1990 : Exit of the film to rough-hew It vanities with the the United States
  • 1989: bloody Riots with Bucharest: the police force shoots at the demonstrators.
  • 1990 : Closing of the last coal well in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
  • 1991 : Eleven Soviet republics, brought together with Alma-ATA (Almaty) with the Kazakhstan, proclaim the death of the Soviet Union and the birth of the Community of independent States. The Georgia, which does not form part of it, is inserted in the civil war.
  • 1999 : American researchers highlight the role of same a infectious Protéine in the appearance of the diseases of the mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
  • 2000 : Inauguration of the European Hospital Georges-Pompidou.

2000 and more

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Honorat of Toulouse bishop (3rd century)

  • Julienne de Nicomédie martyrdom in 304
  • Thémistocle de Myre martyr in 351
  • Thomas (apostle) (), evangelist of the Indies (Latin date, the Greeks celebrate it the October 6th and the Indians on July 1st).

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Julienne de Viazma, princess († 1406)

  • Pierre of Moscow, métropolite († 1326)
  • Procope de Vyatsk, insane for the Christ († 1627)

See too

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