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December 22 is the 356th day of the year ... the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history. [3] 880 – Luoyang, eastern capital of the Tang dynasty, ...
December 22: December solstice (03:28 UTC, 2023); Yule begins; Dongzhi Festival in China (2023) Aerial view of the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill. 856 – An earthquake registering an estimated 7.9 M s struck the eastern Alborz mountains in Persia, causing an estimated 200,000 deaths.
Selected anniversaries/December. 1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars. 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal ...
Current events/2020 December 22. December 22, 2020 (Tuesday) Four prison doctors are killed after a magnetic bomb attached to their vehicle exploded in Kabul. A civilian passerby also died in the attack. The bombing follows a series of recent assassination attempts and targeted killings of prominent Afghan figures.
Killed were 43 of 61 people on board, and two people in a house at 3722 W. 70th Place. The dead included Dorothy Hunt (wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt), CBS News reporter Michelle Clark, and Illinois Congressman George W. Collins. This was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 737.
31. 2024. December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which ...
Jorge Rafael Videla, the former de facto President of Argentina, is sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of crimes against humanity. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) President of the United States Barack Obama signs into law the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, which will bring an end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of ...
[22] 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor. [23] 1814 – Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. [24] 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.