About December 22
December 22, 2024 is the 357th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 9 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 38 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.
- 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.
- 1890 –Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.
- 1937 –The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
- 1942 –World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
- 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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