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Events on December 22

• 1711 Charles VI is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Frankfurt.
• 1894 A French military court sentences the Jewish artillery captain Alfred Dreyfus to a life sentence of exile on Devil's Island for alleged espionage. The antisemitic verdict triggers the Dreyfus Affair years later.
• 1917 The German Industry Standards Committee, a predecessor of DIN, is founded.
• 1920 In Germany, regular radio broadcasts by the Königs Wusterhausen station begin.
• 1942 Harro Schulze-Boysen, Hans Coppi, Arvid Harnack, Libertas Schulze-Boysen, Kurt Schumacher and other members of the Red Orchestra resistance group are executed in Berlin-Plötzensee.
• 1965 The film Doctor Zhivago by David Lean and Carlo Ponti premieres in New York City.
• 1965 1. FC Magdeburg is founded.
• 1971 Members of the Red Army Faction raid the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank in Kaiserslautern. During the raid, police officer Herbert Schoner is shot dead. He is the second victim of the RAF.
• 1989 The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is reopened 28 years after the Wall was built.
• 1999 In an article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, CDU general secretary Angela Merkel settles accounts with former Chancellor Helmut Kohl over his stance on the donation scandal.
• 2001 The Bundestag approves, by a large majority, the deployment of German armed forces to Afghanistan to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1386.
• 2015 The American aerospace company SpaceX succeeds for the first time in landing a rocket stage on Earth after an orbital mission.

Born on December 22

• 1874 Franz Schmidt, Austrian music educator and composer
• 1876 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and founder of Futurism
• 1883 Edgar Varèse, French-American composer and conductor
• 1922 Peter Lorenz, German politician and kidnapping victim
• 1960 Jean-Michel Basquiat, American graffiti artist, painter and draughtsman
• 1960 Felicitas Hoppe, German writer
• 1970 Gary Anderson, Scottish darts player
• 1970 Ted Cruz, American politician
• 1981 Karin Hanczewski, German actress
• 1993 Meghan Trainor, American songwriter and pop singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „22. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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