Historical Events In December - 22

1894  On December - 22 french officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)  

1894  On December - 22 french officer, Alfred Dreyfus, found guilty of selling secrets to Germany  

1894  On December - 22 -23] Dutch coast hit by hurricane  

1895  On this day in history wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist, makes the first ever X-ray of his wife's hand  

1896  On this day in history nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St Petersburg Russia, poet  

1897  On December - 22 bering Sea Claims Commission recommends US pay Canadian sealers $463,454; to compensate for seizure of vessels.  

1899  On December - 22 dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies  

1900  On this day in history a new 35-horsepower car built by Daimler from a design by Emil Jellinek was completed. The car was named for Jellinek's daughter, Mercedes.  

1902  On this day in history richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62  

1907  On December - 22 saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg  

1908  Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on this day in history.  

1910  On December - 22 uS postal savings stamps first issued  

1910  On this day in history uS postal savings stamps 1st issued  

1913  Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on December - 22.  

1915  On this day in history federal Baseball League disolved  

1917  Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack on December - 22.  

1917  Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1918  On this day in history albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83  

1919  US deports 250 alien radicals on December - 22.  

1919  On this day in history government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)  

1922  Montreal Quebec official opening of the Mount Royal Hotel, with 1.046 rooms on this day in history.  

1922  Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent on December - 22.  

1923  On December - 22 bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict  

1923  Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1924  On December - 22 babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2  

1930  On December - 22 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo  

1934  On this day in history 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)  

1935  On December - 22 yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura  

1936  The birth of James Burke, British writer on this day in history.  

1936  The initial common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa on December - 22.  

1936  1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa on this day in history.  

1937  On December - 22 lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic  

1937  On December - 22 lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic  

1937  Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55 on this day in history.  

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1095  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) was born on December - 22.  

1178  On this day in history birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)  

1400  On December - 22 birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)  

1428  On this day in history birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury  

1452  On December - 22 birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer  

1459  On December - 22 birth of djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II  

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland was born on December - 22.  

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on this day in history.  

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on December - 22.  

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on December - 22.  

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.  

1440  On December - 22 death of bluebeard, pirate, executed  

1550  On this day in history death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III  

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on December - 22.  

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on this day in history.  

1660  On December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)