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22 December:

• 609 – Muhammad claims tae receive his first revelation.
• 1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in Fraunce, whan Alfred Dreyfus (picturt) is wrangly convictit o traison.
• 1989 – Communist Preses o Romanie Nicolae Ceaușescu is owerthrawn bi Ion Iliescu efter days o bluidy confrontations. The deponed dictator an his wife flee Bucharest in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
• 1990 – Lech Wałęsa is electit Preses o Poland.
• 2017 – The UN Security Cooncil votes 15–0 in favour o addeetional sanctions on North Korea, includin meisurs tae slash the kintra's petroleum imports bi up tae 90%.

Giacomo Puccini (b. 1858) · George Eliot (d. 1880) · Samuel Beckett (d. 1989)