Historical Events for 21st December 2023

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1872 - Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days"
1919 - J. Edgar Hoover persuades US to deport 250 alien radicals, including anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman and her husband to Russia
1929 - Coco the Clown first appears for Bertram Mills Circus in Manchester, England
1942 - US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
1980 - Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1991 - 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1996 - Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
2012 - Rapper Flavor Flav opens Flavor Flav's Chicken and Ribs causal restaurant in Sterling Heights, Michigan - closes July 2013
2020 - Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley
2022 - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington, DC, meets with US President Joe Biden at the White House, and addresses Congress

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