Template:On this day/21 Dizember

21 December: December solstice (22:23 UTC, 2018); Yule (Modren Paganism an Wicca)

• AD 69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor o Roum, the last in the Year o the Fower Emperors.
• 1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford an the Mayflower Pilgrims laund on whit is nou kent as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
• 1968 – Apollo programme: Apollo 8 is launched frae the Kennedy Space Center, placin its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first veesit tae anither celestial bouk bi humans.
• 1988 – A bomb explodes on buird Pan Am Flicht 103 (picturt) ower Lockerbie, Dumfries an Gallawa, Scotland, killin 270. This is tae date the deidliest air disaster tae occur in Breetish sile.
• 1995 – The ceety o Bethlehem passes frae Israeli tae Palestinian control.

Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1804) · Hu Jintao (b. 1942) · Emmanuel Macron (b. 1977)