WHAT HAPPENED ON 21. DECEMBER
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre. (21. December 1937)

World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. (21. December 1941)

An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes. (21. December 1946)

Libya became an independent country. (21. December 1951)

Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park. (21. December 1962)

Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant. (21. December 1967)

Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans. (21. December 1968)

The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. (21. December 1969)

The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens. (21. December 1973)

Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London, England, United Kingdom by Lord Peter Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara. (21. December 1979)

A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. (21. December 1988)

A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56. (21. December 1992)

Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash. (21. December 1994)

The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. (21. December 1995)

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. (21. December 1999)

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 deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers. (21. December 2004)