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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
- 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
- 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
-
Hector 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
Halidays