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Today in History: December 21

1620
The Pilgrims land at or near Plymouth Rock.

1862
The U.S. Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Navy personnel who have distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action.

1866
Indians, led by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, kill Captain William J. Fetterman and 79 other men who had ventured out from Fort Phil Kearny to cut wood.

1910
Over 2.5 million plague victims are reported in the An-Hul province of China.

1928
President Calvin Coolidge signs the Boulder Dam bill.

1944
German troops surround the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in Belgium.

1945
General George S. Patton dies at the age of 60 after being injured in a car accident.

1986
500,000 Chinese students gather in Shanghai's People's Square calling for democratic reforms, including freedom of the press.

1995
The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

2004
A suicide bomber attacks the forward operating base next to the US military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, killing 22 people; it is the deadliest suicide attack on US soldiers during the Iraq War.

2020
Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley

2020
US President-elect Joe Biden receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV

2021
Major breakthrough in development of nuclear fission energy when experiment produces 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at JET Laboratory, UK

2023
Caitlin Clark ties Elena Delle Donne as the fastest Division I women's player to reach 2,000 career points in a game for Iowa against Dartmouth

Born on December 21


1940
Frank Zappa, bandleader, composer, guitarist, satirist, filmmaker and advocate of creative freedom.

1954
Chris Evert (Chris Evert-Lloyd), No. 1 women's pro tennis player in the world for 260 weeks in the 1970s; she reached 34 Grand Slam singles finals, a record unmatched by any other pro, female or male.

1966
Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor, producer, director; best known as Jack Bauer on the 24 TV series, a role that garnered him several awards including an Emmy and Golden Globe.


JOTD
So there is an elephant stuck in some quicksand

He yells for a help and a mouse comes to try and pull him out. The mouse pulls as hard as he can but the elephant won’t budge. The mouse then runs home to grab his corvette and goes back to pull the elephant out. Later that day, the mouse was stuck in some quicksand. He yells for help and the elephant is nearby. The elephant walks over the quicksand, drops his dick down over the mouse, and the mouse runs up it and is safe. Moral of the story: if you have a big dick, you don’t need a corvette.