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| Birthday December 22, 1696 James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia |
| Birthday December 22, 1727 William Ellery, signed Decl of Ind |
| Birthday December 22, 1856 Frank Kellogg, sec of state, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929) |
| Birthday December 22, 1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer (La Bohme, Tosca) |
| Birthday December 22, 1862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball manager, executive (Phil A's) |
| Birthday December 22, 1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet |
| Birthday December 22, 1903 H Keffer Hartline, US biophysicist (Nobel 1967) |
| Birthday December 22, 1912 Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1st lady |
| Birthday December 22, 1917 Gene Rayburn, game show host |
| Birthday December 22, 1922 James C Wright Jr, (D-Texas), Speaker of the House (1987-, ) |
| Birthday December 22, 1944 Steve Carlton, baseball player |
| Birthday December 22, 1945 Diane Sawyer, TV news personality |
| Birthday December 22, 1949 Maurice and Robin Gibb, (Beegees) |
| Birthday December 22, 1951 Jan Stephenson, in Australia golfer |
| History December 22, 1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny |
| History December 22, 1775 Continental Congress creates a Continental Navy |
| History December 22, 1783 Washington resigns his milt commission |
| History December 22, 1808 Beethoven's Fifth Symphony given world premiere in Vienna |
| History December 22, 1849 Dostoevsky reprieved at last minute |
| History December 22, 1850 Hawaiian PO established |
| History December 22, 1864 Sherman presents Lincoln with a Christmas gift |
| History December 22, 1884 John Chisum dies in Arkansas |
| History December 22, 1894 Dreyfus affair begins in France |
| History December 22, 1900 First Mercedes is delivered to its buyer |
| History December 22, 1917 Russian-German peace talks begin at Brest-Litovsk |
| History December 22, 1919 US deports 250 alien radicals |
| History December 22, 1937 Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic |
| History December 22, 1939 Express trains collide in Germany |
| History December 22, 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt discuss war and peace |
| History December 22, 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3 530 kph (record for a jet) |
| History December 22, 1968 Julie Nixon marries David Eisenhower |
| History December 22, 1971 Waldheim elected U.N. secretary-general |
| History December 22, 1971 Soviet Union attacks Chinese policy toward Vietnam |
| History December 22, 1971 L.A. Lakers break pro sports winning streak record |
| History December 22, 1972 Washington announces Linebacker II raids will continue |
| History December 22, 1978 John Wayne Gacy confesses |
| History December 22, 1979 Hollywood mogul Darryl Zanuck dies |
| History December 22, 1983 Islanders scored 3 shorthanded goals against Caps |
| History December 22, 1984 The Bernhard Goetz subway shooting |
| History December 22, 1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train |
| History December 22, 1989 Romanian government falls |
| History December 22, 1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as president of Poland |