Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 21

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 * 1124 – Lamberto Scannabecchi was elected pope, taking the name Honorius II.
 * 1826 – Settlers from the United States in Mexican Texas made the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the short-lived Republic of Fredonia.
 * 1844 – The Rochdale Pioneers opened their store (pictured) in Rochdale, England, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement.
 * 1872 – HMS Challenger departed Portsmouth on a scientific expedition that laid the foundations of oceanography.
 * 1919 – After serving two years in prison for encouraging people to resist military conscription, anarchist Emma Goldman was deported from the United States to Russia.
 * 1923 – Nepal and the United Kingdom signed the first treaty that defined the international status of Nepal as an independent and a sovereign nation.
 * 1934 – Lieutenant Kijé, one of Sergei Prokofiev's best-known works, premiered.
 * 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length cel-animated feature in film history, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
 * 1965 – The United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which 88 member states have since signed.
 * 1970 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat, the primary fighter aircraft of the U.S. Navy for nearly 30 years, made its first flight.
 * 1994 – Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, dormant for 47 years, began erupting, and is now one of the nation's most active volcanoes.
 * 1995 – In accordance with the Oslo II Accord, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem in preparation for the transfer of control to the Palestinian National Authority.
 * 1988 – The world's heaviest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, made its first flight.
 * 2012 – Countries that were part of the Maya civilization celebrated the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.


 * Born/died this day: | Hugh, Margrave of Tuscany |d|1001| Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton |b|1505| William H. Osborn |b|1820| Joseph Carruthers |b|1857| Maud Gonne |b|1866| George E. Mylonas |b|1898| Iris Cummings |b|1920| Adele Goldstine |b|1920| Henry Reuterdahl |d|1925| Jane Fonda |b|1937|