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
- 1769 –Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) ends with an uneasy truce.
- 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).
- 1864 –Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his “March to the Sea”.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
- 1947 –The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
- 1963 –The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 mi north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
- 1974 –The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
- 1984 –Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan, New York City.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members are killed.
- 2001 –Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
- 2001 –Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
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