About December 22
December 22, 2023 is the 356th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 9 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 50 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1937 –The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
- 1939 –Indian Muslims observe a “Day of Deliverance” to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with Britain.
- 1940 –World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
- 1944 –World War II: The People’s Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1964 –The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.
- 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 –The Parliament of Croatia adopts the current Constitution of Croatia.
- 1991 –Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
- 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.
- 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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