Page 5: 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  -23] Dutch coast hit by hurricane on this day in history.   

1895  Wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist, makes the first ever X-ray of his wife's hand on December - 22.   

1896  On December - 22 nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St Petersburg Russia, poet   

1897  On this day in history 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  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 on December - 22.   

1902  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on December - 22.   

1907  On this day in history saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg   

1908  On December - 22 marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44   

1910  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history federal Baseball League disolved   

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

1917  On this day in history francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67   

1918  Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1919  On December - 22 uS deports 250 alien radicals   

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  Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2 on December - 22.   

1930  6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo on this day in history.   

1934  On December - 22 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)   

1935  Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura on this day in history.   

1936  On this day in history the birth of James Burke, British writer   

1936  On this day in history the initial common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa   

1936  On December - 22 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa   

1937  Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic on December - 22.   

1937  Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic on this day in history.   

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

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1095  On December - 22 birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  On December - 22 birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)   

1400  On this day in history birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)   

1428  On December - 22 birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury   

1452  On this day in history birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on this day in history.   

1515  On this day in history birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland   

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

1100  On December - 22 death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

1337  On December - 22 daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   

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 December - 22 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 December - 22.   

1660  On this day in history death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)