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The 22nt o December is the 356t day o the year (357t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 9 days bidin.

Events

1989: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens

69 - Murther o Roman Emperor Vitellius.
401 - Pape Innocent I is electit.
856 - A yirdquauk in Damghan, Persie, kills an estimatit 200,000 fowk.
1135 - Stephen o Ingland becomes Keeng.
1711 - Charles VI, Haly Roman Emperor is crouned.
1789 - Depairtments are introduced in Fraunce, in a reform o local govrenment.
1894 - The Unitit States Gowf Association is creatit.
1939 - Deadliest day in German rail traivel: Twa separate train crashes kill a tot o 287 fowk.
1979 - Catalonie gets increased autonomy within Spain.
1989 - Nicolae Ceausescu is removed in Romanie.
1989 - The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin re-opens.
1990 - Lech Walesa becomes Preses o Poland.
2001 - CC the cat, the first cloned pet, is born.
2001 - Hamid Karzai is named as heid o the interim govrenment o Afghanistan.
2010 - Preses Barack Obama signs the repeal o the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, regairdin homosexual fowk in the Unitit States militar, intae law.
2011 - Mariano Rajoy becomes Prime meenister o Spain.
2014 - In the Glesga bin lorry crash, 6 fowk are kilt.
2017 - A typhoon hits the soothren Philippines, killin nearly 200 fowk.
2017 - The Unitit Naitions Security Cooncil votes 15-0 in favour o addeetional sanctions against North Korea.
2018 - A pairtial collapse o Anak Karakatau in the Sunda Strait causes tsunamis which kill 426 fowk in soothren Sumatra an wastren Java.

244 - Diocletian, Roman Emperor (d. 311)
1639 - Jean Racine, French writer (d. 1699)
1856 - Frank B. Kellogg, 45t Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1937)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian componer (d. 1924)
1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, editor an airt theorist (d. 1944)
1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathemateecian (d. 1920)
1907 - Peggy Ashcroft, Inglis actress (d. 1991)
1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 2007)
1926 - Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan fitbawer (d. 2015)
1936 - Héctor Elizondo, American actor
1949 - Robin Gibb, Manx-born sangster (Bee Gees) (d. 2012)
1949 - Maurice Gibb, Manx-born sangster (Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1953 - Gregor Fisher, Scots actor an comedian
1962 - Ralph Fiennes, Inglis actor
1970 - Gary Anderson, Scots dairts player
1970 - Ted Cruz, American politeecian
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French sangster an actress
1979 - Jamie Langfield, Scots fitbawer
1982 - Alinne Moraes, Brazilian actress
1984 - Basshunter, Swadish DJ an sangster
1989 - Jordin Sparks, American sangster
1993 - Meghan Trainor, American sangster