THURSDAY, December 21, 2017

Today is Thursday, December 21, the 355th day of 2017. There are 10 days left in the year.

1985 — Alice Miller/Don January win LPGA Mazda Golf Championship

1986 — 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)

1986 — Amy Alcott/Bob Charles win LPGA Mazda Golf Championship

1987 — Three white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man

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

1988 — Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine

1988 — New York City-bound Pan Am jumbo passenger jet (Flight 103) explodes over Scotland, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground

1988 — Vladimir Titov, Anatoly Levchenko & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien

1989 — Romania’s dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s final speech (he is executed 12/25)

1989 — US invades Panam and ousts General Noriega

1989 — Vice-President Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon