Keeping Busy – Keeping Quiet

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 22 December.

1. Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
2. Washington resigns his milt commission
3. Hawaiian PO established
4. US deports 250 alien radicals
5. Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic
6. Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3 530 kph (record for a jet)
7. Islanders scored 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
8. Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train

These famous people were born on 22 December.

1. 1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia
2. 1727 - William Ellery, signed Decl of Ind
3. 1856 - Frank Kellogg, sec of state, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
4. 1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer (La Bohme, Tosca)
5. 1862 - Connie Mack, HOF baseball manager, executive (Phil A's)
6. 1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
7. 1903 - H Keffer Hartline, US biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
8. 1912 - Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1st lady
9. 1917 - Gene Rayburn, game show host
10. 1922 - James C Wright Jr, (D-Texas), Speaker of the House (1987-, )
11. 1944 - Steve Carlton, baseball player
12. 1945 - Diane Sawyer, TV news personality
13. 1949 - Maurice and Robin Gibb, (Beegees)
14. 1951 - Jan Stephenson, in Australia golfer