December 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	69	The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius,Vespasian becomes the fourth Emperor of Rome within a year.	The New Pornographers	Three or Four	Twin Cinema
2.	1620	Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.	Brian Wilson	Smile	Roll Plymouth Rock
3.	1913	Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.	Criteria	Play on Words	En Garde
4.	1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.	Whiskeytown	Mirror, Mirror	Pneumonia
5.	1967	Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.	The Magnetic Fields	I Think I Need a New Heart	69 Love Songs
6.	1968	Apollo program: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center inFlorida. The crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave Earth'sgravity.	The Olivia Tremor Control	I Have Been Floated	Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1
7.	1969	The Gay Activists Alliance is formed in New York City.	Gayrilla Biscuits	Degregaytion	The Demos
8.	1970	Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon meet in the White House.	Elvis Presley	Can't Help Falling in Love	Blue Hawaii

(Historical facts about December 21 are from Wikipedia.)