this is events only on 12/22, its pretty long
On this day...
0401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1783 Washington resigns his military commission as US Army's commander-in-chief
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1862 Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown KY
1870 Jules Janssen flies in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" first published (Boston MA)
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (New York NY)
1888 Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1894 United States Golf Association is formed (New York NY)
1894 Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1907 Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne" premieres in St Petersburg
1910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1915 Federal Baseball League is dissolved
1915 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati OH
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1923 Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Victoria
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in New York NY
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins
1934 1st flight from Netherlands to Curaçao (Christmas flight 1934)
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton PA
1937 Lincoln Tunnel (New York NY) opens to traffic
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference
1941 Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Institute of Arts & Letters
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs West Indies at Adelaide
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton WY (ABC) begins
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1959 New York Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1965 Radio Mil (Dominican Republic) transmitter blown up
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres
1965 Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life imprisonment
1971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, Alaska (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approximately April 1975
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York NY
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God" opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 performances
1976 German Democratic Republic banishes singer Nina Hagen
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) & James Watt (Interior)
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1981 Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1982 William Mastrosimone's "Extremities" premieres in New York NY
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Capitals
1983 Egyptian President Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths (muggers) on a NYC subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs West Indies at the MCG
1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1986 India score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1987 Mötley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 miles of Western Australia & British Columbia coast
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu
1989 Cold wave: -4ºF in Oklahoma City OK, -6ºF in Tulsa OK, -12ºF in Pittsburgh PA, -18ºF in Denver CO, -23ºF in Kansas City MO, -42ºF in Scottsbluff NE, -47ºF in Hardin MT & -60ºF in Black Hills SD
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1994 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi resigns
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 performances
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
On this day...
0401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1783 Washington resigns his military commission as US Army's commander-in-chief
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1862 Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown KY
1870 Jules Janssen flies in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" first published (Boston MA)
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (New York NY)
1888 Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1894 United States Golf Association is formed (New York NY)
1894 Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1907 Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne" premieres in St Petersburg
1910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1915 Federal Baseball League is dissolved
1915 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati OH
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1923 Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Victoria
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in New York NY
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins
1934 1st flight from Netherlands to Curaçao (Christmas flight 1934)
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton PA
1937 Lincoln Tunnel (New York NY) opens to traffic
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference
1941 Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Institute of Arts & Letters
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs West Indies at Adelaide
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton WY (ABC) begins
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1959 New York Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1965 Radio Mil (Dominican Republic) transmitter blown up
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres
1965 Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life imprisonment
1971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, Alaska (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approximately April 1975
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York NY
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God" opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 performances
1976 German Democratic Republic banishes singer Nina Hagen
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) & James Watt (Interior)
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1981 Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1982 William Mastrosimone's "Extremities" premieres in New York NY
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Capitals
1983 Egyptian President Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths (muggers) on a NYC subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs West Indies at the MCG
1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1986 India score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1987 Mötley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 miles of Western Australia & British Columbia coast
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu
1989 Cold wave: -4ºF in Oklahoma City OK, -6ºF in Tulsa OK, -12ºF in Pittsburgh PA, -18ºF in Denver CO, -23ºF in Kansas City MO, -42ºF in Scottsbluff NE, -47ºF in Hardin MT & -60ºF in Black Hills SD
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1994 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi resigns
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 performances
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
