FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2007

Today is Friday, December 21, the 355th day of 2007. There are 10 days left in the year.

1620 _ 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock

1919 _ J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia

1923 _ Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation

1925 _ Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow

1941 _ German submarine U-567 sinks

1946 _ Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086

1949 _ Dutch 1st Chamber accept sovereignty of Indonesia

1957 _ Indonesia proclaims end to state of war

1958 _ Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as first president of the 5th Republic of France

1961 _ JFK and British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda

1971 _ The U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as the fourth secretary-general

1972 _ The Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany

1987 _ Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts (Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko and Vladimir Titov) to space station Mir

1989 _ The U.S. invades Panama and ousts General Noriega

1991 _ The Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States