December 22

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.

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