December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are nine days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
NATIONAL DATE NUT BREAD DAY
69 – Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
1775 – On Friday, December 22, 1775, the Continental Congress creates a Continental Navy, naming Esek Hopkins, Esq., as commander in chief of the fleet.
1849 – On this day, writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is led before a firing squad and prepared for execution. He had been convicted and sentenced to death on November 16 for allegedly taking part in anti-government activities. However, at the last moment he was reprieved and sent into exile.
1849 – A central player in the violent Lincoln County War of 1878-81, the cattleman John Chisum dies at Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
1894 – French officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason by a military court-martial and sentenced to life in prison for his alleged crime of passing military secrets to the Germans.
1927 – A week after the armistice was signed between Russia and Germany and nearly three weeks after a ceasefire was declared on the Eastern Front, representatives of the two countries begin peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk near the Polish border in what is now the city of Brest, in Belarus.
1956 – On this day in 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo enters the world at the Columbus Ohio Zoo, becoming the first-ever gorilla born in captivity.
1971 – The Soviet Union accuses China of backing U.S. policies in Vietnam, an accusation that illustrates the growing rift between the two communist superpowers.
1978 – On this day in 1978, John Wayne Gacy confesses to police to killing over two dozen boys and young men and burying their bodies under his suburban Chicago home.
1984 – On the New York City subway, Bernhard Goetz, a 45-year-old white male, shoots four young black men after they surround him and ask for $5.
1989 – The Romanian army defects to the cause of anti-communist demonstrators, and the government of Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown.
1990 – Lech Walesa, well-known Polish labor leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is sworn in as the first non-communist president of Poland since the end of World War II.
2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
2015 – SpaceX lands a first stage Falcon 9 rocket on ground, after reaching Low Earth orbit at 1:40 UTC for the first time in history.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
244 – Diocletian, Roman emperor (d. 311)
1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1924)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
NATIONAL DATE NUT BREAD DAY
69 – Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
1775 – On Friday, December 22, 1775, the Continental Congress creates a Continental Navy, naming Esek Hopkins, Esq., as commander in chief of the fleet.
1849 – On this day, writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is led before a firing squad and prepared for execution. He had been convicted and sentenced to death on November 16 for allegedly taking part in anti-government activities. However, at the last moment he was reprieved and sent into exile.
1849 – A central player in the violent Lincoln County War of 1878-81, the cattleman John Chisum dies at Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
1894 – French officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason by a military court-martial and sentenced to life in prison for his alleged crime of passing military secrets to the Germans.
1927 – A week after the armistice was signed between Russia and Germany and nearly three weeks after a ceasefire was declared on the Eastern Front, representatives of the two countries begin peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk near the Polish border in what is now the city of Brest, in Belarus.
1956 – On this day in 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo enters the world at the Columbus Ohio Zoo, becoming the first-ever gorilla born in captivity.
1971 – The Soviet Union accuses China of backing U.S. policies in Vietnam, an accusation that illustrates the growing rift between the two communist superpowers.
1978 – On this day in 1978, John Wayne Gacy confesses to police to killing over two dozen boys and young men and burying their bodies under his suburban Chicago home.
1984 – On the New York City subway, Bernhard Goetz, a 45-year-old white male, shoots four young black men after they surround him and ask for $5.
1989 – The Romanian army defects to the cause of anti-communist demonstrators, and the government of Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown.
1990 – Lech Walesa, well-known Polish labor leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is sworn in as the first non-communist president of Poland since the end of World War II.
2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
2015 – SpaceX lands a first stage Falcon 9 rocket on ground, after reaching Low Earth orbit at 1:40 UTC for the first time in history.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
244 – Diocletian, Roman emperor (d. 311)
1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1924)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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