Notable Historical Events on December 22nd
December 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
401 |
St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
795 |
Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I |
1135 |
Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king |
1216 |
Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus" |
1465 |
Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik |
1536 |
English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal |
1596 |
Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die |
1642 |
Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente |
1688 |
Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York |
1689 |
Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck |
1715 |
English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead |
1731 |
Dutch people revolt against meat tax |
1772 |
Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny |
1775 |
Continental navy organized with 7 ships |
1790 |
The supposedly impenetrable Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies during the Russo-Turkish War (1787—1792) |
1807 |
Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France |
1810 |
British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480 |
1814 |
Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society arrives in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand to establish the country's first mission station; Sheep, cattle, horses and poultry are introduced |
1832 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands |
1849 |
The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second. |
1851 |
The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India. |
1862 |
-Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY |
1870 |
Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse |
1877 |
"American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass) |
1882 |
1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison |
1883 |
August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres |
1885 |
Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee |
1885 |
Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan. |
1886 |
1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC) |
1888 |
Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain |
1890 |
Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia. |
1894 |
-23] Dutch coast hit by hurricane |
1894 |
Claude Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres |
1894 |
United States Golf Association forms (NYC) |
1894 |
French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) |
1905 |
Arrest of St Petersburg Soviet members leads to an uprising of Moscow workers and fighting in the street |
1907 |
Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne" premieres in St Petersburg |
1910 |
US postal savings stamps 1st issued |
1915 |
Federal Baseball League disolved |
1915 |
Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati |
1917 |
Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack |
1919 |
US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman |
1922 |
Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent |
1923 |
Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict |
1924 |
Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2 |
1924 |
Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in NYC |
1930 |
Convention of Economic Rapprochement/Oslo Agreesments signed between some European countries in response to the Great Depression |
1934 |
1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934) |
1934 |
Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games |
1935 |
Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura |
1936 |
1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa |
1937 |
Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic |
1939 |
125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany |
1939 |
Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 v Queensland |
1939 |
Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo |
1939 |
99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany |
1940 |
World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army. |
1941 |
Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines |
1941 |
Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia |
1941 |
Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC for a wartime conference |
1942 |
World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. |
1943 |
Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core |
1944 |
Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium |
1944 |
Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan |
1945 |
Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established |
1946 |
"Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances |
1946 |
Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game |
1947 |
Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution |
1948 |
KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77 |
1951 |
Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide |
1952 |
French government of Pinay, resigns |
1952 |
WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Jack Dunn III, owner of Balt Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns |
1956 |
"New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs |
1956 |
Last British/French troops leave Egypt |
1956 |
Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Columbus Ohio |
1957 |
KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins |
1958 |
"Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 |
1958 |
"Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances |
1958 |
2nd Dutch Beel government forms |
1959 |
Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth |
1959 |
NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask |
1961 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1962 |
1,000,000th NBA point scored |
1962 |
Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s |
1962 |
Kinderman Place in the Bronx named |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1963 |
Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) |
1963 |
Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends |
1963 |
Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives. |
1964 |
Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) |
1964 |
Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity. |
1964 |
First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird). |
1965 |
Belgian government shuts 6 coal mines |
1965 |
Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres |
1965 |
Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour |
1965 |
Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up |
1966 |
WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots |
1970 |
Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment |
1971 |
KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General |
1971 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972 |
6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed |
1973 |
OPEC Gulf Six decides to raise the posted price of marker crude from $5.12 to $11.65 per barrel effective January 1, 1974 |
1974 |
2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975 |
1974 |
Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals |
1974 |
Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French |
1974 |
Ted Heath's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA. |
1974 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a Christmas ceasefire; before the ceasefire, they carry out a bomb attack on the home of former UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath |
1974 |
Iraq announces plans to increase its oil production capacity |
1975 |
US President Gerald Ford signs the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) |
1976 |
"Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 perfs |
1976 |
35 Unification church couples wed in NYC |
1976 |
German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen |
1977 |
36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes |
1978 |
Kenney Jones becomes The Who's new drummer |
1978 |
Thailand adopts constitution |
1980 |
Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds |
1980 |
US President-elect Ronald Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) & James Watt (Interior) |
1981 |
Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president |
1981 |
Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms |
1982 |
William Mastrosimones "Extremities" premieres in NYC |
1983 |
Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
1983 |
Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps |
1984 |
Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train |
1984 |
Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks |
1984 |
Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG |
1985 |
"Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs |
1985 |
74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2) |
1985 |
STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B |
1986 |
India score 7-676 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket |
1987 |
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin |
1988 |
2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ |
1988 |
South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa |
1988 |
Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast |
1989 |
After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu |
1989 |
Chad adopts its Constitution |
1989 |
Cold wave: -4°F in Oklahoma City, -6°F in Tulsa, -12°F in Pitts |
1989 |
-18°F in Denver, -23°F in KC Mo, -42°F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47°F in Hardin Mont & -60°F in Black Hills South Dakota |
1990 |
Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait |
1990 |
Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen |
1990 |
Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president |
1990 |
Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games |
1992 |
Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die |
1994 |
"Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 perfs |
1994 |
Italian government of Berlusconi resigns |
1995 |
David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with NY Yankees |
1996 |
Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD |
1996 |
Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge |
1996 |
Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with Eng need 1 to win |
1997 |
Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract |
1997 |
Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA |
1997 |
Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5 |
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). |
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. |
2002 |
Joe Strummer, lead singer of the British punk band The Clash, dies at age 50 |
2003 |
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California. |
2003 |
The New York Knicks hire Isiah Thomas as President of Basketball Operations |
2010 |
The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama. |
2012 |
6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus |
2012 |
8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan |
2012 |
Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
2015 |
Number of refugees reaching Europe this year passes 1 million |
2015 |
NY cop, female Air Force major among 6 US troops killed in Afghan attack |
2016 |
Nearly 300 Arrested in Congo, as Protests Appear to Wane |
2016 |
North Carolina rebuffs transgender bathroom law repeal |
2016 |
Uber halts California self-driving cars test |
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