Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 22
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Deng Xiaoping, paramount leader of PR China -
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird -
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Vitellius on a coin -
President Obama signing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Midsummer festivities (Southern Hemisphere, 2011); | Brazil is the only Southern Hemisphere country listed in the article |
| Mother's Day in Indonesia | refimprove section |
| 1216 – Pope Honorius III issued the papal bull Religiosam vitam to establish the Dominican Order. | refimprove |
| 1808 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Fourth Piano Concerto, and Choral Fantasy were premiered in a concert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. | 5th: refimprove sections |
| 1885 – Itō Hirobumi, a samurai from Chōshū, became the first prime minister of Japan. | refimprove section, neutrality issues |
| 1944 – Vietnamese revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh formed the People's Army of Vietnam to drive French colonialists and Japanese occupiers out of Indochina. | refimprove |
| 1944 – World War II: U.S. Army General Anthony McAuliffe responded to the German ultimatum of surrender during the Battle of the Bulge with a single word, "NUTS!" | refimprove |
| 1947 – The Constitution of the Italian Republic was enacted by the Constituent Assembly. | refimprove |
| 1963 – A total of 128 people died when the ocean liner TSMS Lakonia burned at sea 180 miles (290 km) north of Madeira. | refimprove |
| 1974 – Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli voted to become the independent nation of the Comoros. | unreferenced section |
| 1978 – The Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opened, where Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and other party officials agreed to launch economic reforms and to open up China. | refimprove |
| 1987 – The Zimbabwe African National Union and Zimbabwe African People's Union agreed to merge, bringing an end to the Gukurahundi, the suppression of predominantly Ndebele civilians by the 5th Brigade. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – Romanian Revolution: After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu took over as president of Romania, ending the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu. | outdated, expansion |
| 1989 – Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate re-opened after nearly 30 years, symbolizing the unity of East and West Germany. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – The Parliament of Croatia adopted the country's current constitution. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – CC the cat, the first cloned pet, was born. | stubby |
| * 1971 – Two groups of French doctors involved in humanitarian aid merged to form Médecins Sans Frontières. | Tagged for COI |
Eligible
- 69 – Roman emperor Vitellius was captured by soldiers loyal to Vespasian and executed at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
- 401 – Pope Innocent I began his papacy, succeeding Anastasius I.
- 1769 – Defeated by the Burmese Konbaung dynasty, Qing China agreed to a peace treaty to end the Sino-Burmese War.
- 1807 – In an effort to avoid engaging in the Napoleonic Wars, the United States Congress passed the Embargo Act, forbidding American ships from engaging in trade with foreign nations.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia.
- 1920 – The Congress of Soviets approved the GOELRO plan, the first Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development.
- 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel, connecting New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey, opened.
- 1939 – Members of the All-India Muslim League observed a "Day of Deliverance" to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over the decision to enter the Second World War at the request of the United Kingdom.
- 1964 – The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the United States Air Force's long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft and the world's fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, made its first flight.
- 1968 – Cultural Revolution: The People's Daily published a piece by Chinese leader Mao Zedong directing that "the intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty".
- 1984 – While riding a New York City Subway train, Bernhard Goetz shot four African-American youths who had attempted to rob him, sparking a nationwide debate on vigilantism, racism, and the legal limits of self-defense.
- 1997 – Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquished the disputed title of President of Somalia.
- 2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani of the Northern Alliance handed over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by Hamid Karzai.
- 2001 – Richard Reid unsuccessfully attempted to detonate a bomb in his shoe on a transatlantic flight from Paris to Miami.
- 2010 – The United States repealed its controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the military.
- Born/died: | Cynesige |d|1060| Étienne Martellange |b|1569| John Newbery |d|1767| Teresa Carreño |b|1853| Frank B. Kellogg |b|1856| Jean-Victor Poncelet |d|1867| Alan Bush |b|1900| Tommy Flowers |b|1905| Peggy Ashcroft |b|1907| Rose Talbot Bullard |d|1915| Bruno Kiesler |b|1925| Angela James |b|1964| Basshunter |b|1984| Benjamin Schulte |b|1995
Notes
- Battle of the Bulge appears on December 16, so Anthony McAuliffe should not appear in the same year
- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab/Northwest Airlines Flight 253 appears on December 25, so Richard Reid/2001 shoe bomb plot should not appear in the same year
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Aerial view of the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
- 856 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 struck the eastern Alborz mountains in Persia, causing an estimated 200,000 deaths.
- 1948 – Chaired by Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia was established to counter Dutch attempts to re-assert colonial control.
- 1988 – Brazilian unionist and environmental activist Chico Mendes was murdered at his home in Xapuri.
- 2008 – A dike ruptured at a waste containment area for a coal-fired power plant in Kingston, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 million m3) of coal fly ash slurry (aftermath pictured) in the largest industrial spill in US history.
- Carl Friedrich Abel (b. 1723)
- William Hyde Wollaston (d. 1828)
- Meghan Trainor (b. 1993)
- Dina Belenkaya (b. 1993)
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