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
- 1790 –The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
- 1808 –Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
- 1885 –Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1890 –Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.
- 1894 –The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
- 1920 –The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
- 1940 –World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
- 1942 –World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
- 1944 –World War II: The People’s Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
- 1947 –The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
- 1951 –The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
- 1956 –Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio.
- 1963 –The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 mi north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –Hussein Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
- 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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