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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_22" title="December 22">December 22</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_solstice" title="December solstice">December solstice</a></b> (03:28 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>, 2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule" title="Yule">Yule</a></b> begins; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongzhi_Festival" title="Dongzhi Festival">Dongzhi Festival</a></b> in China (2023)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/856" title="856">856</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/856_Damghan_earthquake" title="856 Damghan earthquake">An earthquake</a></b> registering an estimated 7.9 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-wave_magnitude" title="Surface-wave magnitude">M<sub>s</sub></a> struck the eastern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alborz" title="Alborz">Alborz</a> mountains in Persia, causing an estimated 200,000 deaths.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a> – Chaired by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjafruddin_Prawiranegara" title="Sjafruddin Prawiranegara">Sjafruddin Prawiranegara</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Government_of_the_Republic_of_Indonesia" title="Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia">Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia</a> was established to counter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Kraai" title="Operation Kraai">Dutch attempts to re-assert colonial control</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – Brazilian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union">unionist</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmental</a> activist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Mendes" title="Chico Mendes">Chico Mendes</a></b> was murdered at his home in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xapuri" title="Xapuri">Xapuri</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill" title="Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill">A dike ruptured</a></b> at a waste containment area for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant" title="Kingston Fossil Plant">a coal-fired power plant</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Tennessee" title="Kingston, Tennessee">Kingston, Tennessee</a>, releasing 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 million m<sup>3</sup>) of coal fly ash <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurry" title="Slurry">slurry</a> in the largest industrial spill in US history.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Abel" title="Carl Friedrich Abel">Carl Friedrich Abel</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1723); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hyde_Wollaston" title="William Hyde Wollaston">William Hyde Wollaston</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1828); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Trainor" title="Meghan Trainor">Meghan Trainor</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1993); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Belenkaya" title="Dina Belenkaya">Dina Belenkaya</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1993)</p>
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