December 22
People born on this day are Capricorn.
- 1996
Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes in Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.
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Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
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Somali Civil War: Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
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Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
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Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Islamic State of Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
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An ash dike ruptures at a solid waste containment area for a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 4.2 million m3 (1.1 billion US gal) of coal fly ash slurry in the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.
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The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.
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A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.
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A tsunami caused by an eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia kills at least 430 people and injures almost a thousand more.
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2006Callan McKenna, Scottish footballer
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2001Camila Osorio, Colombian tennis player
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2001Jack Draper, British tennis player
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2000Joshua Bassett, American actor and singer
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1998G Hannelius, American actress and singer
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1998Latto, American rapper and singer
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1998Casper Ruud, Norwegian tennis player
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1993Sergi Darder, Spanish footballer
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1993Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer
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1993Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter and producer
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1992Michaela Hončová, Slovak tennis player
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1992Nick Johnson, American basketball player
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