December 21

The twenty-first day of December.

Events

 * 1620: Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
 * 1973: The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
 * 1995: The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

Births

 * 1118: Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
 * 1596: - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
 * 1603: Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
 * 1811: Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)

Deaths

 * 72: Thomas the Apostle
 * 1504: Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
 * 1597: Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (b. 1521)

Roman Catholicism

 * O Oriens (O Sunrise)
 * Saint Petrus Canisius - the patron saint of half days and not making or recieving phone calls
 * formerly feast day of Thomas the apostle