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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1620" title="1620">1620</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)" title="Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)">Pilgrims</a> aboard the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i> landed at present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth,_Massachusetts" title="Plymouth, Massachusetts">Plymouth, Massachusetts</a>, to establish the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963" title="1963">1963</a> – An attempt by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Cypriots" title="Greek Cypriots">Greek Cypriot</a> police to search certain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Cypriots" title="Turkish Cypriots">Turkish Cypriot</a> women in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicosia" title="Nicosia">Nicosia</a> escalated into <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Christmas_(1963)" title="Bloody Christmas (1963)">island-wide violence</a></b>, leading to 538 deaths and the displacement of nearly 27,000 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8" title="Apollo 8">Apollo 8</a></b> launched from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Center</a> in Florida on a trajectory to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>; its crew became the first humans to visit another celestial body.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – A bomb on board <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103" title="Pan Am Flight 103">Pan Am Flight 103</a></b> detonated over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockerbie" title="Lockerbie">Lockerbie</a>, Scotland, killing 270 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018" title="2018">2018</a> – Operatives of the British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Boat_Service" title="Special Boat Service">Special Boat Service</a> boarded the container ship <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Tema_incident" title="Grande Tema incident">Grande Tema</a></b></i> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Estuary" title="Thames Estuary">Thames Estuary</a> to detain four stowaways who had threatened the crew.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Sheng_(Southern_Tang)" title="Sun Sheng (Southern Tang)">Sun Sheng</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 956); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_ibn_Muhammad_ibn_al-Walid" title="Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid">Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1215); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luang_Por_Dattajivo" title="Luang Por Dattajivo">Luang Por Dattajivo</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1940); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1942)</p>
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