December 21

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Friday, December 21, 2012

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<a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/21/16069016-disbelief-in-some-quarters-after-nra-calls-for-armed-guards-at-every-school-blames-movies?lite" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Disbelief in some quarters after NRA calls for armed guards at every school ...</a>NBCNews.com (blog)In the wake of the Newtown shootings, school districts across the country are hiring armed guards to patrol the hallways of their schools. Meanwhile, in Harrold, Texas, teachers are encouraged to carry concealed handguns. NBC's Charles Hadlock reports.

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<a href="http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21009382210046/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Police search for Footlocker crooks</a>7Online WSVN-TVMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police are searching for the thieves who burglarized a South Florida shoe store. The thieves broke into a Footlocker store along Northwest 199th Street and Second Avenue, Friday. Police said the crooks connected a chain to ...

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<a href="http://www.hudsonhubtimes.com/sports/2012/12/23/defending-state-champs-roll-past-hudson-girls-basketball-team" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Defending state champs roll past Hudson girls basketball team</a>Hudson Hub-TimesHudson -- Over the last four years, a certain towering All-Ohioan from Twinsburg had a knack for putting on a show at Hudson High School's Ray "Buck" Hyser Gymnasium. Unfortunately for Lady Explorers' fans, another All-Ohioan from Twinsburg also seems ...

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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/author-whorehouse-playwright-larry-king-dies-18037683" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Author, 'Whorehouse' Playwright Larry L. King Dies</a>ABC NewsLarry L. King, a writer and playwright whose magazine article about a campaign to close down a popular bordello became a hit Tony Award-nominated musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and a movie starring Burt Reynolds, died Thursday. He was ...

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December 21 in history

• 1620, William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts

• 1844, the Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement

• 1861, Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln

• 1913, Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World

• 1937, the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon in Technicolor, is premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles

• 1945, Gen. George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident

• 1967, Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days

• 1968, Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 2h:50m:37s Mission elapsed time (MES), the crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave the Earth's gravity field

• 1970, Elvis Presley meets with President Richard Nixon to discuss the war on drugs. ALSO: The F-14 Tomcat flies for the first time

• 1971, the United Nations Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General

• 1976, the Liberian-registered tanker Argo Merchant broke apart near Nantucket Island almost a week after running aground, spilling 7.5 million gallons of oil into the North Atlantic

• 1988, a bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 by practitioners of that "religion of peace" over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270

• 1995, the city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control; immediately Christians there begin to suffer

• 2002, President Bush received a smallpox vaccination, fulfilling a promise he'd made when he ordered inoculations for about a half-million

• 2007, the Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Malta on land and sea borders