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12-22-2010, 04:15 AM
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This Date in History - December 22nd
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* 69 Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
* 1790 The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
* 1807 The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
* 1809 The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, is passed by the U.S. Congress.
* 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, on antisemitic grounds.
* 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: Himarλ is captured by the Greek army.
* 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!"
* 1944 World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
* 1947 The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
* 1951 The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
* 1956 Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.
* 1963 The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
* 1964 First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird).
* 1965 In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
* 1974 Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohιli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
* 1974 The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
* 1978 The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
* 1984 Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four would-be African-American 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 dictatorship.
* 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.
* 1992 The Archives of Terror are discovered.
* 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.
* 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.
* 2008 An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 million m³) of coal fly ash slurry.
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This Date in History - December 22nd
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* 69 Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
* 1790 The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
* 1807 The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
* 1809 The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, is passed by the U.S. Congress.
* 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, on antisemitic grounds.
* 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: Himarλ is captured by the Greek army.
* 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!"
* 1944 World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
* 1947 The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
* 1951 The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
* 1956 Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.
* 1963 The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
* 1964 First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird).
* 1965 In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
* 1974 Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohιli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
* 1974 The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
* 1978 The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
* 1984 Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four would-be African-American 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 dictatorship.
* 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.
* 1992 The Archives of Terror are discovered.
* 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.
* 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.
* 2008 An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 million m³) of coal fly ash slurry.
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