About December 22
December 22, 2025 is the 356th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 9 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 57 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 22
- 69 –Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
- 1769 –Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) ends with an uneasy truce.
- 1790 –The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
- 1807 –The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
- 1851 –The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
- 1890 –Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.
- 1920 –The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
- 1942 –World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: “Nuts!”
- 1947 –The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
- 1951 –The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
- 1963 –The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 mi north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
- 1974 –Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
- 1978 –The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
- 1988 –Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
- 1989 –After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Communist authoritarian regime.
- 1990 –Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
- 1990 –The Parliament of Croatia adopts the current Constitution of Croatia.
- 2008 –An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 e9USgal of coal fly ash slurry.
- 2010 –The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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