Wednesday 22 December 2010

On This Day - 22nd December


1912 - Lady Bird Johnson born
1917 - Gene Rayburn born
1922 - Barbara Billingsley born
1943 - Beatrix Potter dies
1945 - Diane Sawyer born
1948 - Steve Garvey born
1949 - Robin and Maurice Gibb born
1972 - The Chilean Air Force finds 14 survivors two months after their plane crashed in the Andes.
1974 - Terrorists bomb the home of the Conservative leader and former Prime Minister Edward Heath.
1989 - Berlin's most famous landmark, the Brandenburg Gate, opens for the first time in nearly 30 years.
1997 - An independent inquiry into the BSE "disaster" and the devastation it wreaked on British farming is announced.
2000 - The American superstar marries British film maker Guy Ritchie at an exclusive ceremony in a Scottish castle hours after their son is christened.
2003 - Guerrillas in Colombia release the Briton Mark Henderson and four Israelis who were kidnapped in September.

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