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Old 12-22-2016, 11:56 AM   #470
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December 22

There are 9 days remaining in 2016.

There are 2 days until Christmas. Whaddya mean ya didn't get batteries?!?!


Events

856 – Damghan earthquake: An earthquake near the Persian city of Damghan kills an estimated 200,000 people, the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history.

1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).

1864 – Savannah, Georgia falls to the forces of General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

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!"

1964 – The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

1965 – In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.

1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.

1984 – Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, New York.

1987 - Nikki Sixx from Mötley Crüe was pronounced 'dead on arrival' in an ambulance when his heart stopped beating for two minutes. Sixx was given two shots of adrenaline in his chest to revive him. Fellow band members were prematurely informed of his death.

1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

1990 – Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.

2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

2002, Former Clash singer and guitarist Joe Strummer (John Graham Mellor) died of a suspected heart attack aged 50.

2008 – An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of coal fly ash slurry.

2010 – The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

2014 - Joe Cocker died of lung cancer in Crawford, Colorado aged 70. The Sheffield-born singer had a career lasting more than 40 years.

Births

244 – Diocletian; 1858 – Giacomo Puccini♪ ♫; 1912 – Lady Bird Johnson (38th FLOTUS); 1915 – Barbara Billingsley (Leave It To Beaver); 1917 – Gene Rayburn (Match Game); 1921 – Hawkshaw Hawkins; 1922 – Ruth Roman (Strangers on a Train); 1934 – David Pearson; 1936 – Héctor Elizondo; 1937 – Charlotte Lamb; 1943 – Paul Wolfowitz; 1944 – Barry Jenkins(The Animals); 1945 – Diane Sawyer; 1948 – Rick Nielsen(Cheap Trick); 1948 – Lynne Thigpen; 1949 – Robin & Maurice Gibb♪ ♫(The Bee Gees); Luke Skywalker aka Luther Campbell♪ ♫(2 Live Crew); 1961 – Andrew Fastow; 1961 – Yuri Malenchenko (Russian cosmonaut, 1st person to marry in while in space); 1962 – Ralph Fiennes; 1968 – Dina Meyer; 1970 – Ted Cruz; 1972 – Vanessa Paradis♪ ♫; 1989 – Jordin Sparks♪ ♫; 1993 – Meghan Trainor♪ ♫

Deaths

1880 – George Eliot (author Adam Bede, Silas Marner); 1939 – Ma Rainey♪ ♫; 1943 – Beatrix Potter (author The Tale of Peter Rabbit); 1979 – Darryl F. Zanuck; 1989 – Samuel Beckett (author Waiting for Godot); 1993 – Don DeFore (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet); 1995 – Butterfly McQueen (Gone With The Wind); 2002 – Joe Strummer aka John Graham Mellor♪ ♫(The Clash); 2014 – Christine Cavanaugh (voice actress Babe, RugRats, Darkwing Duck, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters); 2014 – Joe Cocker♪ ♫
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