December 22 ⇒Back
December 22 ⇒Back
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January 25, 1573 - ★Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu is defeated by Takeda Shingen. But Shingen later dies probably because of Ieyasu's conspiracy.
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February 9, 1825 - ★After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
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January 21, 1862 - ◆The First Japanese Embassy to Europe leaves Shinagawa Port, Japan.
This year, Katsu Kaishu becomes director of the Kobe Naval School.
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January 21, 1862 - ◆Opel, a German automobile company, is founded by Adam Opel.
At the beginning, Opel just produced sewing machines in a cowshed in Rüsselsheim.
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February 8, 1904 - ★Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
On the same day (on February 7 in the US), the Great Baltimore Fire breaks out in Baltimore, Maryland.
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January 27, 1962 - ◆(birth) Kim Hyon Hui, former North Korean operative.
She was responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing on November 29, 1987, which killed 115 people.
The day is the 100th anniversary (December 22, 1961) of the First Japanese Embassy to Europe (December 22, 1861) in the Japanese calendar.
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January 24, 1965 - ★(death) Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate.
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January 22, 1976 - ★(death) Kiyoshi Okubo, serial killer. He is executed.
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