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.
  • 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.
  • 1864 –
    Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his “March to the Sea”.
  • 1885 –
    Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
  • 1894 –
    The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
  • 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.
  • 1956 –
    Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio.
  • 1964 –
    The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.
  • 1965 –
    In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
  • 1974 –
    The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
  • 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 –
    Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
  • 1990 –
    Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
  • 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 are massacred by paramilitary forces.
  • 1998 –
    Hurricane Quinto strikes the Cayman Islands, knocking out power to the entire island for 2 days. Looting is rampant, but contained after 12 hours.

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