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22 December, 2007
The Bleach (manga) film: The DiamondDust Rebellion, is released in Japan theatres. Starring Toshiro Hitsugaya as the lead character.
22 December, 2003
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California; see San Simeon earthquake.
22 December, 2001
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
22 December, 2001
Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
22 December, 1999
The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives (see related event on December 21, 1999).
22 December, 1997
Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
22 December, 1990
Paul Coffey of the Pittsburgh Penguins becomes the National Hockey Leagues first defenseman to score 1,000 points. He would finish his career with 1,531 points.
22 December, 1989
After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceausescus Communist dictatorship.
22 December, 1989
Berlins Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
22 December, 1989
Kempsey bus crash: Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey, New South Wales
22 December, 1988
Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
22 December, 1984
Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American men on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City.
22 December, 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.
22 December, 1974
Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
22 December, 1974
Ted Heaths house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
22 December, 1965
In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
22 December, 1964
Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity.
22 December, 1964
First SR-71 (Blackbird) flight.
22 December, 1963
Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
22 December, 1956
Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.
22 December, 1947
The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution.
22 December, 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!"
22 December, 1944
World War II: Vietnam Peoples Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
22 December, 1942
World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
22 December, 1940
World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
22 December, 1937
The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
22 December, 1920
The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
22 December, 1894
The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.
22 December, 1885
Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
22 December, 1864
Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".
22 December, 1851
The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
22 December, 1849
The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
22 December, 1809
The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress.
22 December, 1808
In a mammoth concert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony as well as his Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy.
22 December, 1807
The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
22 December, 1790
The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
22 December, 1603
Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.

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