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Events from History on December 22

xxxx : III succeeds pope Adrianus I
xxxx : nnocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1135 : Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 : Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 : Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 : English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 : Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 : Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 : Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 : Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 : English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 : Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 : Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 : Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1783 : Washington resigns his military commission [or 1223?]
1790 : Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1807 : Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 : British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1815 : Spaniards execute M‚xican revolutionary priest Jos‚ Maria Morelos
1832 : HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1862 : -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
1870 : Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1877 : "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
1882 : 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1883 : August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
1885 : Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1886 : 1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
1888 : Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1894 : -23] Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 : Debussy's "Pr‚lude … l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 : French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers
1894 : worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1907 : Saint-Sa‰ns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg
1910 : US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1915 : Federal Baseball League disolved
1915 : Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1917 : Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1919 : Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 : US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1922 : Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1923 : Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1924 : Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in NYC
1930 : 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1934 : 1st flight from Netherland to Cura‡ao (Christmas flight 1934)
1934 : Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1935 : Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1936 : 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1937 : Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic
1939 : 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1939 : 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1939 : Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 v Queensland
1939 : Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 : Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 : Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1941 : Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1941 : Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
1943 : Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 : WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
1944 : Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 : Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1945 : Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946 : "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1946 : Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1947 : Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1948 : KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 : 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1952 : French govt of Pinay, resigns
1952 : WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 : Jack Dunn III, owner of Balt Orioles in Intl League, turns name over
1953 : to newly relocated St Louis Browns
1956 : "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
1956 : Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1957 : KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1958 : "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 : "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
1958 : 2nd Dutch Beel govt forms
1959 : Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft Worth
1959 : NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1961 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 : Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 : Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 : Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 : Official 30-day mourning period for Pres John F Kennedy ends
1964 : Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1965 : Belgian govt shuts 6 coal mine
1965 : Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago," premieres
1965 : Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1965 : Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1966 : WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 : Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1969 : Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1970 : Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1971 : KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 : UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General
1971 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 : 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1974 : 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975
1974 : Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1976 : "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 perfs
1976 : 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1976 : German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen
1977 : 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1978 : Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 : Thailand adopts constitution
1980 : Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 : Pres-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) & James Watt (Interior)
1981 : Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 : Belgium's 5th govt of Martens forms
1982 : William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in NYC
1983 : Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 : Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1984 : Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train
1984 : Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1985 : "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1985 : STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1987 : M”tley Cre's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
1988 : 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
1988 : South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
1988 : Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
1989 : -18øF in Denver, -23øF in KC Mo, -42øF in Scottsbluff Nebraska
1989 : -47øF in Hardin Mont & -60øF in Black Hills South Dakota
1989 : After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 : Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 : Cold wave: -4øF in Oklahoma City, -6øF in Tulsa, -12øF in Pitts,
1990 : Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 : Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
1990 : Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1992 : Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1994 : "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 perfs
1994 : Italian govt of Berlusconi resigns
1995 : David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with NY Yankees
1996 : Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
1997 : Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 : Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 : Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5

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