Here is what happened on this day in history.
December 22nd…
1956- First gorilla born in captivity
1988- Chico Mendes, leading Brazilian conservationist, is assassinated
2001- “Shoe bomber” Richard Reid attempts to detonate bombs on Paris- Miami flight
1894- Governing body for U.S. golf is founded
1808- Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony given world premiere in Vienna
1894- Dreyfus affair begins in France
1984- Bernhard Goetz shoots four youths on the subway
1989- Romanian government falls
1917- Russian-German peace talks begin at Brest-Litovsk
1971- Soviet Union attacks Chinese policy toward Vietnam
1968- Julie Nixon marries David Eisenhower
1884- Cattleman John Chisum dies in Arkansas
1849- Fyodor Dostoevsky spared from execution
1993- “Philadelphia” the first major Hollywood movie about AIDS, opens in theaters
1978-John Wayne Gacy confesses to dozens of murders
1864- General Sherman presents President Lincoln with a Christmas gift
1941- Churchill and Roosevelt discuss war and peace
To find out more about any of these events go to https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
