December, 22th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Saturday 22, 2001:
Cc the cat, the first cloned pet, was born.

Wednesday 22, 1999:
Tandja Mamadou became President of Niger.

Monday 22, 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 were massacred by paramilitary forces.

Saturday 22, 1990:
Lech Wałęsa sworn in as President of Poland

Friday 22, 1989:
1989 - Two Tourist coaches collide on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey NSW (Kempsey Bus Crash).

Thursday 22, 1988:
Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, was assassinated.

Saturday 22, 1984:
Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American youths on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City.

Sunday 22, 1974:
Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.

Tuesday 22, 1964:
Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity

Sunday 22, 1963:
Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.

Friday 22, 1944:
Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Vietnam

Wednesday 22, 1937:
The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

Thursday 22, 1910:
Chicago Union Stock Yards Fire, 21 firemen were killed.

Saturday 22, 1894:
The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.

Tuesday 22, 1885:
Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

Thursday 22, 1864:
Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman

Monday 22, 1851:
The first freight train is operated in Roorkee in India.

Saturday 22, 1849:
The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is canceled at the last second.

Friday 22, 1809:
The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress.

Tuesday 22, 1807:
The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

Monday 22, 1603:
Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/22-december/on-this-day.html


People born on December 22

1969:
Myriam Bédard, Canadian athlete (b: December 22, 1969) (Biography of Myriam Bédard)

1967:
Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer (b: December 22, 1967) (Biography of Dan Petrescu)

1962:
Ralph Fiennes, English actor (b: December 22, 1962) (Biography of Ralph Fiennes)

1958:
Frank Gambale, Australian guitarist. (b: December 22, 1958) (Biography of Frank Gambale)

1951:
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster (b: December 22, 1951) (Biography of Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor)

1949:
Maurice Gibb, Australian musician (The Bee Gees) (b: December 22, 1949 ; d: January 12, 2003) (Biography of Maurice Gibb)
Robin Gibb, Australian musician (The Bee Gees) (b: December 22, 1949) (Biography of Robin Gibb)

1948:
Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b: December 22, 1948 ; d: March 12, 2003) (Biography of Lynne Thigpen)

1946:
Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick) (b: December 22, 1946) (Biography of Rick Nielsen)

1945:
Diane Sawyer, American journalist (b: December 22, 1945) (Biography of Diane Sawyer)

1944:
Steve Carlton, baseball player (b: December 22, 1944) (Biography of Steve Carlton)

1922:
Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b: December 22, 1922) (Biography of Barbara Billingsley)
Jack Brooks, American politician (b: December 22, 1922) (Biography of Jack Brooks (politician))
Ruth Roman, American actress (b: December 22, 1922) (Biography of Ruth Roman)

1917:
Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b: December 22, 1917 ; d: November 29, 1999) (Biography of Gene Rayburn)

1912:
Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b: December 22, 1912) (Biography of Lady Bird Johnson)

1907:
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (b: December 22, 1907 ; d: June 14, 1991) (Biography of Peggy Ashcroft)

1905:
Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b: December 22, 1905) (Biography of Kenneth Rexroth)

1899:
Gustav Gründgens, German actor and director (b: December 22, 1899) (Biography of Gustav Gründgens)

1898:
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (b: December 22, 1898 ; d: December 27, 1974) (Biography of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock)

1888:
J. Arthur Rank, American producer (b: December 22, 1888 ; d: March 29, 1972) (Biography of J. Arthur Rank)

1887:
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b: December 22, 1887 ; d: April 26, 1920) (Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan)

1883:
Edgar Varèse French-born composer (b: December 22, 1883 ; d: November 6, 1965) (Biography of Edgar Varèse)

1876:
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (b: December 22, 1876) (Biography of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti)

1874:
Franz Schmidt, Austrain composer (b: December 22, 1874 ; d: February 11, 1939) (Biography of Franz Schmidt)

1869:
Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b: December 22, 1869 ; d: April 6, 1935) (Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson)

1862:
Connie Mack, baseball executive and manager (b: December 22, 1862 ; d: February 8, 1956) (Biography of Connie Mack (baseball))

1860:
Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship inoovator (b: December 22, 1860) (Biography of Austin Norman Palmer)

1858:
Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b: December 22, 1858 ; d: November 29, 1924) (Biography of Giacomo Puccini)

1856:
Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b: December 22, 1856 ; d: December 21, 1937) (Biography of Frank B. Kellogg)

1805:
John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b: December 22, 1805 ; d: January 2, 1893) (Biography of John Obadiah Westwood)

1723:
Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b: December 22, 1723 ; d: June 20, 1787) (Biography of Karl Friedrich Abel)

1696:
James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b: December 22, 1696 ; d: June 30, 1785) (Biography of James Oglethorpe)

1694:
Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1768) (b: December 22, 1694 ; d: March 1, 1768) (Biography of Hermann Samuel Reimarus)

1666:
Guru Gobind Singh, (b: December 22, 1666 ; d: October 7, 1708) (Biography of Guru Gobind Singh)

1639:
Jean Racine, French dramatist (b: December 22, 1639 ; d: April 21, 1699) (Biography of Jean Racine)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/22-december/births.html

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They left us on December 22

2004:
Doug Ault, baseball player (b: March 9, 1950 ; d: December 22, 2004) (Biography of Doug Ault)

2003:
Dave Dudley, American singer (b: May 3, 1928 ; d: December 22, 2003) (Biography of Dave Dudley)

2002:
Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (b: August 21, 1952 ; d: December 22, 2002) (Biography of Joe Strummer)
Desmond Hoyte (d: December 22, 2002) (Biography of Desmond Hoyte)

1995:
Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b: January 7, 1911 ; d: December 22, 1995) (Biography of Butterfly McQueen)

1989:
Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: April 13, 1906 ; d: December 22, 1989) (Biography of Samuel Beckett)

1988:
Chico Mendes (d: December 22, 1988) (Biography of Chico Mendes)

1985:
D. Boon (d: December 22, 1985) (Biography of D. Boon)

1979:
Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (b: September 5, 1902 ; d: December 22, 1979) (Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck)

1965:
Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (b: May 25, 1913 ; d: December 22, 1965) (Biography of Richard Dimbleby)

1959:
Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (b: October 24, 1901 ; d: December 22, 1959) (Biography of Gilda Gray)

1943:
Beatrix Potter, English author (b: July 28, 1866 ; d: December 22, 1943) (Biography of Beatrix Potter)

1942:
Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b: July 9, 1858 ; d: December 22, 1942) (Biography of Franz Boas)

1940:
Nathanael West, American writer (b: October 17, 1903 ; d: December 22, 1940) (Biography of Nathanael West)

1939:
Ma Rainey, American singer (b: April 26, 1886 ; d: December 22, 1939) (Biography of Ma Rainey)

1936:
Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (b: October 25, 1856 ; d: December 22, 1936) (Biography of Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger)

1902:
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (b: August 14, 1840 ; d: December 22, 1902) (Biography of Richard von Krafft-Ebing)

1899:
Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b: February 5, 1837 ; d: December 22, 1899) (Biography of Dwight L. Moody)

1880:
George Eliot, English novelist (b: November 22, 1819 ; d: December 22, 1880) (Biography of George Eliot)

1870:
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (b: February 17, 1836 ; d: December 22, 1870) (Biography of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)

1828:
William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b: August 6, 1766 ; d: December 22, 1828) (Biography of William Hyde Wollaston)

1738:
Constantia Jones (d: December 22, 1738) (Biography of Constantia Jones)

1708:
Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b: June 26, 1681 ; d: December 22, 1708) (Biography of Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp)

1681:
Richard Alleine (d: December 22, 1681) (Biography of Richard Alleine)

1660:
André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (b: June 23, 1612 ; d: December 22, 1660) (Biography of André Tacquet)

1646:
Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b: December 21, 1596 ; d: December 22, 1646) (Biography of Peter Mogila)

1603:
Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b: May 26, 1566 ; d: December 22, 1603) (Biography of Mehmed III)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/22-december/deaths.html