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.
- 1851 –The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
- 1885 –Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
- 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.
- 1937 –The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
- 1940 –World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
- 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.
- 1974 –The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 2001 –Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
- 2008 –An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 e9USgal of coal fly ash slurry.
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