Historical Events for 23rd December 2022

1926 – KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1939 – South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1953 – Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1970 – French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970 – 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” (record) in London’s West End
1972 – “Immaculate Reception” Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
1972 – New York Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1977 – British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens formally converts to Islam, taking the name Yusuf Islam
1997 – “As Good as It Gets” film released written and directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt
2012 – The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic

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Historical Events for 22nd December 2022

1939 – Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 – Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1943 – Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1965 – Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour
1966 – WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1980 – MLB St. Louis Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1989 – Republic of Chad (Africa) adopts its Constitution
1990 – Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games
1990 – Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait

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Historical Events for 21st December 2022

1900 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Michael Kramer” premieres in Berlin
1929 – 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1944 – Cards’ Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1949 – “Samson and Delilah”, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York
1959 – Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
1975 – Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Stockholm, Sweden: Home town hero Björn Borg beats Czech Jan Kodeš 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to give Sweden unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
1975 – “Very Good Eddie” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
1978 – Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’ musical “A Broadway Musical” opens and closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 1 performance
2005 – Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK, with singer Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union
2020 – Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley

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Historical Events for 20th December 2022

1823 – Play “Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus” by Helmina von Chézy with incidental music by Franz Schubert premieres in Vienna
1862 – Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi
1921 – AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9; Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1926 – St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby to NY Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring; concerns over Hornsby’s gambling
1937 – Australian cricket spin bowler Bill O’Reilly takes career best 9-41 for NSW in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval
1966 – Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1970 – Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland’s communist party leader
1991 – NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators
2001 – 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2)
2017 – Lady Gaga signs Las Vegas residency deal for $75m at MGM Park Theatre

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Historical Events for 19th December 2022

1154 – King Henry II of England crowned King of England
1562 – Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Condé captured
1859 – Grading started for Market Street RR in San Francisco
1862 – Skirmish at Jackson, Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties)
1917 – Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
1919 – American Meteorological Society found
1969 – Beatle’s 7th Christmas fan-club single is released
1980 – Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo’s corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2018 – First use of a drone to deliver vaccines – to island of Erromango, Vanuatu, by Unicef

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Historical Events for 18th December 2022

1774 – Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia
1902 – British parliament passes the Education Act, which will come to be regarded as the most important legislation of Arthur Balfour’s government
1932 – National Football League Championship; Playoff, Chicago Stadium: Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans, 9-0
1935 – Edvard Beneš becomes President of Czechoslovakia after Tomáš Masaryk retires
1962 – Ballon d’Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
1963 – “The Pink Panther” film premieres, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers and David Niven, with theme by Henry Mancini
1963 – Muskegon, Michigan gets 3′ of snow
1970 – Polish uprising fails
1976 – Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
1978 – USSR performs underground nuclear test

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Historical Events for 17th December 2022

1819 – Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia’s independence from Spain
1885 – France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1946 – US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
1970 – Workers returning to shipyard in Gdynia, Poland are met by soldiers who shoot at the crowd, killing at least 18, wounding hundreds
1970 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 – Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
1977 – Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st US TV appearance on “Saturday Night Live”
1983 – In his 352nd NHL game, Wayne Gretzky scores a goal and 5 assists in 8-1 rout of Quebec Nordiques to record his 800th point and 500th assist; averages 2.27 points, 1.42 assists, 0.85 goals per game to start career
1992 – “A Christmas Carol” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
2019 – Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in absentia for high treason

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Historical Events for 16th December 2022

1900 – A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes
1912 – 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
1960 – “Wildcat” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
1965 – Gemini 6 returns to Earth
1974 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 – Bill Veeck buys 80% of MLB Chicago White Sox from John Allyn
1979 – Dallas QB Roger Staubach throws 3 TDs and 336 yards in his last NFL regular season game with the Cowboys, a 35-34 win over Washington Redskins at Texas Stadium
1990 – Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
1997 – US President Bill Clinton names his Labrador retriever “Buddy”
2020 – Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death

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Historical Events for 15th December 2022

1569 – Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in “The Rising of the North”, Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, escapes to Scotland.
1840 – Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death
1863 – Romania’s mountain railway, from Anina to Oravita, opens
1944 – Hizbu’allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
1965 – D Heneker and J Taylor’s musical “Charlie Girl” premieres in London
1980 – Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N’djamena
1986 – CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
2011 – ESPN and the NCAA extend their TV rights deal through 2023-24, giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to 24 NCAA championships for various sports; deal worth $500m
2017 – Anita Hill is appointed to lead a Hollywood commission on sexual harassment, spearheaded by Kathleen Kennedy
2020 – MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations across the US

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Historical Events for 14th December 2022

1575 – Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland
1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, to regulate and tax production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products
1920 – Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC
1954 – WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – 16 countries join the United Nations, including Austria, Finland, Italy, and Spain
1959 – The album “Time Out” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is released, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and becomes the first jazz album to sell a million copies.
1960 – Washington Senators joins American League
1980 – Massacre at Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles with 3 people killed and 6 injured
1991 – Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, 476 killed
2019 – Miss World won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London. First time all five major beauty titles held by black women.

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