December 21

December 21, 1988

A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270

December 21, 1843

Thomas Bracken was an Irish-born New Zealand poet, journalist and politician, was born

December 21, 1814

Death of Marie-Louise O’Murphy, Mistress of Louis XV, dies in Paris