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December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 9 days remaining. This is the most common day for
winter to begin in the
northern hemisphere and
summer to begin in the
southern hemisphere
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 1603 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I .
1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1807 - The Embargo Act , forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress , at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson .
1809 - The Non-Intercourse Act , lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France , passes the U.S. Congress .
1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
1851 - The first freight train is operated in Roorkee , India .
1864 - Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman , concluding his "March to the Sea ".
1885 - Ito Hirobumi , a samurai , became the first Prime Minister of Japan .
1894 - The Dreyfus affair begins, in France , when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason , on antisemitic grounds.
1920 - The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR .
1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City .
1944 - World War II : Battle of the Bulge --German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne , Belgium ; prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe : "NUTS!"
1944 - World War II : Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China , now Vietnam .
1947 - The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution .
1956 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity .
1963 - Cruise ship Lakonia Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
1964 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity .
1964 - First SR-71 (Blackbird) flight.
1965 - In the United Kingdom , a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
1974 - Grande Comore , Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros . Mayotte remains under French administration.
1974 - Ted Heath 's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA .
1984 - Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American men on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City .
1988 - Chico Mendes , a Brazilian rubber tapper , unionist and environmental activist , is assassinated .
1989 - After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania , ending Nicolae Ceauşescu 's Communist dictatorship.
1989 - Berlin 's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany .
1989 - Kempsey bus crash : Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey, New South Wales
1990 - Lech Wałęsa is sworn in as President of Poland .
1990 - Paul Coffey of the Pittsburgh Penguins becomes the National Hockey League 's first defenseman to score 1,000 points. He would finish his career with 1,531 points.
1997 - Acteal massacre : Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza ) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives (see related event on December 21 1999 ).
1999 - Tandja Mamadou becomes President of Niger .
2001 - Burhanuddin Rabbani , political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance , hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai .
2001 - Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63 .
Births 1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185 )
1550 - Cesare Cremonini , Italian philosopher (d. 1631 )
1639 - Jean Racine , French dramatist (d. 1699 )
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh , Sikh guru (d. 1708 )
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba , King of Manipur (d. 1751 )
1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus , German philosopher and writer (d. 1768 )
1696 - James Oglethorpe , English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785 )
1723 - Karl Friedrich Abel , German composer (d. 1787 )
1765 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff , German mathematician (d. 1825 )
1805 - John Obadiah Westwood , British entomologist (d. 1893 )
1807 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven , Norwegian poet (d. 1873 )
1819 - Franz Wilhelm Abt , German composer (d. 1870 )
1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet , French mathematician (d. 1892 )
1853 - Teresa Carreño , Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917 )
1853 - Yevgraf Fyodorov , Russian mathematician (d. 1919 )
1856 - Frank B. Kellogg , U.S. Secretary of State , Nobel laureate (d. 1937 )
1858 - Giacomo Puccini , Italian composer (d. 1924 )
1860 - Austin Norman Palmer , American penmanship innovator (d. 1927 )
1862 - Connie Mack , baseball executive (d. 1956 )
1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet (d. 1935 )
1869 - Dmitri Egorov , Russian mathematician (d. 1931 )
1872 - Camille Guérin , French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961 )
1874 - Franz Schmidt , Austrian composer (d. 1939 )
1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Italian poet and editor (d. 1944 )
1883 - Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965 )
1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan , Indian mathematician (d. 1920 )
1888 - J. Arthur Rank , British film producer (d. 1972 )
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock , Russian physicist (d. 1974 )
1899 - Gustav Gründgens , German actor (d. 1963 )
1901 - André Kostelanetz , American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980 )
1903 - Haldan Keffer Hartline , American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983 )
1905 - Kenneth Rexroth , American poet (d. 1982 )
1905 - Pierre Brasseur , French actor (d. 1972 )
1907 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft , English actress (d. 1991 )
1909 - Patricia Hayes , American actress (d. 1998 )
1912 - Lady Bird Johnson , First Lady of the United States
1915 - Barbara Billingsley , American actress
1917 - Gene Rayburn , American game show host (d. 1999 )
1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins , American country singer (d. 1963 )
1922 - Jack Brooks , American politician
1922 - Ruth Roman , American actress (d. 1999 )
1925 - Lewis Glucksman , American financier (d. 2006 )
1934 - David Pearson , American racecar driver
1936 - James Burke , British writer
1936 - Hector Elizondo , American actor
1936 - Wojciech Frykowski , Polish actor (d. 1969 )
1937 - Eduard Uspensky , Russian writer
1938 - Matty Alou , baseball player
1938 - Lucien Bouchard , Quebec politician
1939 - James Gurley , American musician
1942 - Dick Parry , English musician (Pink Floyd )
1943 - Paul Wolfowitz , American politician
1944 - Steve Carlton , baseball player
1945 - Diane Sawyer , American journalist
1948 - Noel Edmonds , English game show host
1948 - Steve Garvey , baseball player
1948 - Patricia Hewitt , British politician
1948 - Rick Nielsen , American musician (Cheap Trick )
1948 - Lynne Thigpen , American actress (d. 2003 )
1949 - Maurice Gibb , English musician (The Bee Gees ) (d. 2003 )
1949 - Robin Gibb , English musician (The Bee Gees )
1951 - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor , Duke of Westminster
1953 - BernNadette Stanis , actress
1953 - Ian Turnbull , Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Lonnie Smith , baseball player
1957 - Carole James , Canadian politician
1958 - Frank Gambale , Australian musician
1958 - Mikael Nordfors , Swedish physician and author
1959 - Bernd Schuster , German footballer
1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat , American artist (d. 1988 )
1960 - Patrick Fitzgerald , American attorney
1961 - Andrew Fastow , American businessman
1962 - Ralph Fiennes , English actor
1963 - Giuseppe Bergomi , Italian footballer
1966 - Dmitry Bilozerchev , Soviet gymnast
1967 - Dan Petrescu , Romanian footballer
1967 - Richey James Edwards , musician (Manic Street Preachers )
1967 - Stéphane Gendron , Quebec politician
1968 - Dina Meyer , American actress
1968 - Lauralee Bell , American actress
1969 - Myriam Bédard , Canadian athlete
1972 - Big Tigger , television host
1972 - Vanessa Paradis , French singer
1974 - Heather Donahue , American actress
1975 - Crissy Moran , American erotic actress
1975 - Dmitri Khokhlov , Russian footballer
1975 - Stanislav Neckář , Czech ice hockey player
1977 - Steve Kariya , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Devin Anderson , American composer
1980 - Michael Starkey , American Designer
1980 - Lee Eun-ju , South Korean actress (d. 2005 )
1983 - Jennifer Hawkins , Australian Miss Universe
1984 - Jonas Altberg , Swedish musician (Basshunter )
1987 - Brian Barnes , Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Jordin Sparks , American singer and American Idol 1990 - Jean-Baptiste Maunier , French actor
1993 - Aliana Lohan , American singer
1993 - Mark Klein , American singer and member of The Boogie Kings
Deaths 1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1603 - Mehmed III , Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566 )
1646 - Peter Mogila , Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596 )
1660 - André Tacquet , Belgian mathematician (b. 1612 )
1681 - Richard Alleine , English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611 )
1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp , Swedish writer (b. 1681 )
1738 - Constantia Jones , British prostitute (executed)
1767 - John Newbery , English publisher (b. 1713 )
1788 - Percivall Pott , English physician and surgeon (b. 1714 )
1806 - William Vernon , American merchant (b. 1719 )
1867 - Jean-Victor Poncelet , French mathematician (b. 1788 )
1870 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer , Spanish poet and writer (b. 1836 )
1828 - William Hyde Wollaston , English chemist (b. 1766 )
1880 - George Eliot , English writer (b. 1819 )
1899 - Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist (b. 1837 )
1902 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing , German psychiatrist (b. 1840 )
1917 - Mother Cabrini , first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church (b. 1850 )
1936 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger , Croatian paleontologist (b. 1856 )
1939 - Ma Rainey , American singer (b. 1886 )
1940 - Nathanael West , American writer (b. 1903 )
1942 - Franz Boas , German anthropologist (b. 1858 )
1943 - Beatrix Potter , English writer (b. 1866 )
1944 - Harry Langdon , American silent film actor (b. 1884 )
1947 - Hans Aumeier , German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906 )
1959 - Gilda Gray , Polish-born American dancer and actress (b. 1901 )
1965 - Richard Dimbleby , English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913 )
1971 - Godfried Bomans , Dutch author and television personality (b. 1913 )
1979 - Darryl F. Zanuck , American producer (b. 1902 )
1985 - D. Boon , American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen ) (b. 1958 )
1988 - Chico Mendes , Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist, and environmental activist (assassinated) (b. 1944 )
1989 - Samuel Beckett , Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906 )
1992 - Frederick Franz , Watchtower president (b. 1893 )
1993 - Don DeFore , American actor (b. 1913 )
1995 - Butterfly McQueen , American actress (b. 1911 )
1995 - James Meade , English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907 )
1998 - Michelle Thomas , American actress (b. 1969 )
2002 - Desmond Hoyte , President of Guyana (b. 1929 )
2002 - Joe Strummer , British musician (The Clash ) (b. 1952 )
2003 - Dave Dudley , American singer (b. 1928 )
2004 - Doug Ault , baseball player (b. 1950 )
2006 - Galina Ustvolskaya , Russian composer (b. 1919 )
2006 - Dennis Linde , songwriter (b. 1943 )
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