December 22 – Some important events on this day
1596 ๐๐ผ Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1666 ๐๐ผ The French Academy of Sciences, founded by Louis XIV with Jean-Baptiste Colbert first meets in the Kings Library
1790 ๐๐ผ Supposedly impenetrable Turkish fortress of Izmail stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies during the Russo-Turkish War (1787โ92)
1808 ๐๐ผ Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 5 and No. 6, Choral Fantasy and Piano Concerto No. 4 (featuring the composer as soloist) premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria
1849 ๐๐ผ The execution of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky by firing squad is called off at the last second
1877 ๐๐ผ Thomas Edison’s Phonograph is announced by Scientific American
1885 ๐๐ผ Itล Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan
1932 ๐๐ผ “The Mummy” directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff is released in the US – 1st Mummy horror film
1956 ๐๐ผ Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Columbus, Ohio.
Colo, a western lowland gorilla whose name was a combination of Columbus and Ohio, was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two gorillas captured in French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought to the Columbus Zoo in 1951.
1962 ๐๐ผ 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1972 ๐๐ผ 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1989 ๐๐ผ After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
1990 ๐๐ผ Lech Waลฤsa sworn in as Poland’s 1st popularly elected president
2010 ๐๐ผ Repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy”, a 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the US military, signed into law by President Barack Obama
2018 ๐๐ผ Tsunami hits Indonesia’s Sunda Strait killing over 400 after part of the Anak Krakatoa volcano slips into the sea
