December 22 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for December 22
In the headlines today:

2004	The number of US high-speed Internet service subscribers increases 38% to nearly 33 million, according to the FCC.
2002	Joe Strummer, singer-guitarist for rock band The Clash, dies at his Somerset, England, farmhouse at age 50.
1999	Repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope take place in earth orbit, thanks to a pair of astronauts from the NASA space shuttle Discovery.
1995	Actress Butterfly McQueen (Gone With The Wind) dies in Augusta, GA, at age 84.
1990	Lech Walesa is sworn in as Poland's first president elected by popular vote.
1989	Author-playwright Samuel Beckett dies in Paris at age 83.
1984	Bernhard Goetz of New York City shoots four black teens on the subway, for fear that they would rob him.
1983	Actress Kirstie Alley (Veronica's Closet, Cheers) marries actor Parker Stevenson.
1979	Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox studio mogul, dies of pneumonia at age 77.
1976	TV host Monty Hall tapes the last Let's Make A Deal game show.
1971	The UN General Assembly ratifies the Security Council's election of Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General.
1943	Children's author-illustrator Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) dies in England at age 77.
1938	A Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), a fish thought to be extinct for 65 million years, is caught off the east coast of South Africa.
1807	In an effort to get England and France to settle their differences, the US Congress cuts off trade with Europe with the passage of the Embargo Act.
1775	The American colonies organize their own Continental Navy.