December 21 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2012 — 2012 phenomenon: this day was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, leading to... ↗
• 2004 — Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single... ↗
• 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, Spain. ↗
• 1995 — The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. ↗
• 1992 — A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1995 — Bobby, South Korean-American rapper
• 1992 — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, American football player
• 1991 — Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer
• 1989 — Mark Ingram Jr., American football player
• 1988 — Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler