December 22: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

December 22nd marks the 356th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 357th in case of leap years). There are 9 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Vanessa Paradis (1972), Ralph Fiennes (1962) and Pamela Courson (1946).
But much more happened on December 22 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

R.C. Saints - commemoration of Frances Xavier Cabrini
Spain: the main draw of Spanish National Lottery, where it is a Christmas tradition.
Astrology: First day of sun sign Capricorn
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs on or very close to this date. In the Southern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs around this time.
Also see December 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Japan - T?ji (winter solstice)
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Events

2018 Somali Civil War: At least 16 people are killed and more than 20 injured by a car bomb in Mogadishu near the presidential palace.
2017 Yemeni Civil War (2015-present). Eight million Yemenis are now at risk of starvation after 1,000 days of civil war.
2016 Syrian Civil War, Battle of Aleppo (2012)-16: The Syrian Army claims it now has full control of Aleppo after the evacuation of last rebel group to the Idlib Governorate.
2015 Iraqi Civil War, 2014-2017, Battle of Ramadi - The latest development in an effort to retake the city from the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) and the Levant, is the advance of the Iraqi Army into the middle of Ramadi.
2014 War in North-West Pakistan: School attack in Peshawar, 2014.
2013 Syrian Civil War: Syrian government warplanes drop bombs on Aleppo, killing 63 civilians and a total of 62 others.
2012 Syrian civil war: A car bomb kills six people in Damascus and a gunman assassinates an official television journalist.
2011 In a 16-bombing attack on Baghdad's capital, at least 72 people were killed and 169 others were injured shortly after the withdrawal of American forces.
2010 President Barack Obama signed the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy, a 17-year-old policy that prohibited homosexuals from serving openly in America's military, into law.
2009 Howard Schmidt, a former executive at Microsoft and eBay, has been appointed cybersecurity chief by the US White House.
2008 The American Environmental Protection Agency has published a Clean Water Act General Permit allowing cruise ships to dump unlimited amounts of untreated "graywater", within a mile of U.S. shores.
2007 Iraq War: Turkish Air Force planes strike Kurdistan Workers Party targets north of Iraq.
2006 The Kennedy Space Center welcomes the NASA space shuttle Discovery, which has completed a two-week mission towards the International Space Station.
2005 The Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 by George W. Bush is signed into law as Public Law 109-145 by the US President.
2004 The worst natural disasters of recorded history hit Southeast Asia when the largest earthquake in 40 years strikes the entire Indian Ocean region. The tsunami waves from the 9.3 magnitude earthquake that struck just off Sumatra Island, Indonesia, create huge tsunami waves that hit the coasts of many countries, including India, Sri Lanka and Maldives. Official death toll from the affected areas is
2003 California is shaken by an earthquake, killing two.
2002 Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, announced that he had canceled presidential and legislative elections that were scheduled for next month. He believes that continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories will make it impossible to hold free elections.
2001 After Richard Reid, a passenger, attempts to light his shoe filled with explosives on fire, a flight departing from Paris, France, is diverted to Boston Massachusetts.
2000 Madonna marries Guy Ritchie, film director, at Skibo Castle, Dornoch, Sutherland in Scotland. Sting, Stella McCartney and Sting were there.
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.
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million three year contract with New York Yankees.
1994 Christmas Carol opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 performances
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die.
1991 Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen.
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gallons on 300 miles of Western Australia and British Columbia coast.
1985 Wind in the Willows closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train
1983 Egyptian President Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1982 William Mastrosimones Extremities, premieres in New York City
1981 Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president.
1980 US President-elect Ronald Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) and James Watt (Interior).
1978 Thailand adopts constitution.
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes.
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approximately April 1975
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks / College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots.
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet).
1963 Oakland Raiders' Tom Flores passes for six touchdowns vs Houston Oilers (52-49).
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth.
1958 Chipmunk Song reaches #1
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1956 New Faces of 1956 closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
1955 American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes, forty-six.
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated Saint Louis Browns.
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
1950 Two self-propelled trains of Long Island, New York, railroad collide, killing 77.
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution.
1946 Bal Negre closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Institute of Arts & Letters
1942 World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
1941 Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1940 World War II: Himare is captured by the Greek army.
1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1937 Lincoln Tunnel (New York City, New York) opens to traffic.
1936 First common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton Pennsylvania.
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1924 Alvin Hall becomes director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
1923 Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Victoria in cricket.
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch University in Ghent.
1920 The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland).
1916 The British Sopwith Camel aircraft makes its maiden flight. It was designed to counter the German's Fokker aircraft.
1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati Ohio.
1910 US postal savings stamps first issued.
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