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🏰 On this day in History - Dec 22

0401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I

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 United States Golf Association forms (NYC)

1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers 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 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2

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 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 v Queensland

1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo

1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany

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

1951 Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide

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 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 1,000,000th NBA point scored

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 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals

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

1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG

1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs

1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)

1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B

1986 India score 7-676 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket

1987 M”tley CrЃe'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 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu

1989 Chad adopts its Constitution

1989 Cold wave: -4шF in Oklahoma City, -6шF in Tulsa, -12шF in Pitts,

1989 -18шF in Denver, -23шF in KC Mo, -42шF in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47шF in Hardin Mont & -60шF in Black Hills South Dakota

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

1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge

1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with Eng need 1 to win

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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