What are the important events that happened on December 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 22 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 9, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,734,825,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectapentacontaheptagon’ day.
Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,384 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 22 Historical Events
- 69 –Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
- 1885 –Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1951 –The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
- 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.
- 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 African-American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan, New York City.
- 1990 –The Parliament of Croatia adopts the current Constitution of Croatia.
- 2008 –An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 e9USgal of coal fly ash slurry.
Who were born on December 22?
- 1869 –Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)
- 1936 –Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
- 1944 –Steve Carlton, American baseball player
- 1951 –Dan Martin, American voice actor
- 1951 –Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster
- 1963 –Brian McMillan, South African cricketer
- 1980 –Chris Carmack, American actor
- 1986 –Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nigerian terrorist suspect
- 1988 –Leigh Halfpenny, Welsh rugby player
- 1998 –G. Hannelius, American child actress
Who died on December 22?
- 1550 –Richard Plantagenet, British bricklayer and claimant to the House of Plantagenet
- 1738 –Constantia Jones, British prostitute (b. c. 1708)
- 1939 –Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
- 1940 –Nathanael West, American writer (b. 1903)
- 1989 –Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 1992 –Frederick Franz, Watchtower president (b. 1893)
- 2002 –Desmond Hoyte, Guyanan politician (b. 1929)
- 2006 –Dennis Linde, American songwriter (b. 1943)
- 2007 –Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (b. 1932)
- 2009 –Albert Scanlon, English footballer (b. 1935)
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