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Today in History

Sunday, 21 December 2025

1999

The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.

1995

The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

1994

Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.

1992

A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.

1988

A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.

1979

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.

1973

The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.

1969

The Gay Activists Alliance is formed in New York City.

1968

Apollo program: ''Apollo 8'', the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 2h:50m:37s Mission elapsed time (MES), the crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave Earth's gravity.

1967

Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.

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