22 December
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The 22nt o December is the 356t day o the year (357t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 9 days bidin.
Events
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- 69 - Murther o Roman Emperor Vitellius.
- 401 - Pape Innocent I is electit.
- 856 - A yirdquauk in Damghan, Persie, kills an estimatit 200,000 fowk.
- 1135 - Stephen o Ingland becomes Keeng.
- 1711 - Charles VI, Haly Roman Emperor is crouned.
- 1789 - Depairtments are introduced in Fraunce, in a reform o local govrenment.
- 1894 - The Unitit States Gowf Association is creatit.
- 1939 - Deadliest day in German rail traivel: Twa separate train crashes kill a tot o 287 fowk.
- 1979 - Catalonie gets increased autonomy within Spain.
- 1989 - Nicolae Ceausescu is removed in Romanie.
- 1989 - The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin re-opens.
- 1990 - Lech Walesa becomes Preses o Poland.
- 2001 - CC the cat, the first cloned pet, is born.
- 2001 - Hamid Karzai is named as heid o the interim govrenment o Afghanistan.
- 2010 - Preses Barack Obama signs the repeal o the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, regairdin homosexual fowk in the Unitit States militar, intae law.
- 2011 - Mariano Rajoy becomes Prime meenister o Spain.
- 2014 - In the Glesga bin lorry crash, 6 fowk are kilt.
- 2017 - A typhoon hits the soothren Philippines, killin nearly 200 fowk.
- 2017 - The Unitit Naitions Security Cooncil votes 15-0 in favour o addeetional sanctions against North Korea.
- 2018 - A pairtial collapse o Anak Karakatau in the Sunda Strait causes tsunamis which kill 426 fowk in soothren Sumatra an wastren Java.
Births
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- 244 - Diocletian, Roman Emperor (d. 311)
- 1639 - Jean Racine, French writer (d. 1699)
- 1856 - Frank B. Kellogg, 45t Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1937)
- 1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian componer (d. 1924)
- 1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, editor an airt theorist (d. 1944)
- 1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathemateecian (d. 1920)
- 1907 - Peggy Ashcroft, Inglis actress (d. 1991)
- 1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 2007)
- 1926 - Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan fitbawer (d. 2015)
- 1936 - Héctor Elizondo, American actor
- 1949 - Robin Gibb, Manx-born sangster (Bee Gees) (d. 2012)
- 1949 - Maurice Gibb, Manx-born sangster (Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
- 1953 - Gregor Fisher, Scots actor an comedian
- 1962 - Ralph Fiennes, Inglis actor
- 1970 - Gary Anderson, Scots dairts player
- 1970 - Ted Cruz, American politeecian
- 1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French sangster an actress
- 1979 - Jamie Langfield, Scots fitbawer
- 1982 - Alinne Moraes, Brazilian actress
- 1984 - Basshunter, Swadish DJ an sangster
- 1989 - Jordin Sparks, American sangster
- 1993 - Meghan Trainor, American sangster
Daiths
- 69 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (b. 15)
- 1603 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1566)
- 1880 - George Eliot, Inglis writer (b. 1819)
- 1887 - Jerry Weir, Scots fitbawer; b. 1851
- 1943 - Beatrix Potter, Inglis writer (b. 1866)
- 1989 - Samuel Beckett, Erse writer (b. 1906)
- 2014 - Joe Cocker, Inglis sangster (b. 1944)
- 2018 - Paddy Ashdown, Breetish politeecian; b. '41
Halidays
- Winter Solstice (Northren Hemisphere), whiles occurs on 21 December
- Simmer Solstice (Soothren Hemisphere), whiles occurs on 21 December
- Naitional Day o Mathematics (Indie)
- Teacher's Day (Cuba)
- Mither's Day (Indonesie)
- Airmed Forces Day (Vietnam)
- Unity Day (Zimbabwe)
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