December 22 holidays, events, history
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – Energy Workers’ Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Mother’s Day.
🇮🇳 India – National Mathematics Day.
🇻🇳 Vietnam – People’s Army Day.
🇨🇺 Cuba – Teachers’ Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Anna and Samantha Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Diplomatic Service Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan, 🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Energy Industry Day.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – Unity Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1317 – Battle of Bortena.
– 1603 – Ahmed I becomes the new ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
– 1790 – Russian troops capture the Izmail fortress.
– 1807 – The US Congress banned trade relations with other countries.
– 1808 – Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was performed at the Vienna Theater.
– 1847 – Abdul Kadir surrendered to France.
– 1857 – The first postage stamp was issued in Russia.
– 1894 – The Dreyfus Affair began.
– 1910 – The Emir of Bukhara, Abdul Ahad Khan, died of kidney disease.
– 1919 – 249 people were deported from the US to Soviet Russia.
– 1920 – The 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets opened in Moscow (until December 29). The GOELRO plan was approved.
– 1944 – The Vietnamese People’s Army was created to resist the Japanese occupation of Vietnam.
– 1973 – SE-210 crash near Tangier (Morocco). 106 people died.
– 1976 – Il-86 test flight took place.
– 1978 – Andrei Chikatilo committed his first murder.
– 1989 – The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin reopened after 28 years as part of German reunification.
– 2009 – Serbia applied to join the European Union.
– 2015 – The United States published a classified list of targets for a major US nuclear strike against the USSR, Eastern Bloc countries and China in 1959.
– 2017 – The Address of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Oliy Majlis was published.
