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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