What happend on 22nd December

21.12
23.12
1988

Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, was assassinated.

1984

Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American youths on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City.

1974

Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.

1964

Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity

1963

Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.

1944

Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Vietnam

1944

German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium. See Battle of the Bulge

1937

The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

1910

Chicago Union Stock Yards Fire, 21 firemen were killed.

1894

The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.