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22 December| 22 December 1248 | Castile, Spain, León [Reconquista of Spain (711–1492)] | The Muslim city of Seville in southern Spain surrenders to King Ferdinand III of Castile and León. | | 22 December 1639 | France [births and deaths] | Jean Racine, French poet and dramatist known for his tragedies Briannicus, Bérénice, and Phèdre/Phaedra, baptized in La Ferté-Milon, France (–1699). | | 22 December 1894 | France, French Guiana [crime and punishment] | Major Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army officer, is convicted of treason by a court martial, and is imprisoned on Devil's Island, French Guiana. | | 22 December 1989 | Romania [political events] | The Romanian army joins forces with antigovernment demonstrators in Romania and overthrows President Nicolae Ceausescu. | | 22 December 1989 | Ireland, France [births and deaths] | Samuel Beckett, Irish writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, dies in Paris, France (83). | | 22 December 2003 | USA [animal husbandry] | The USA confirms its first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) at a farm in the state of Washington, leading to a widespread ban by other countries on US beef imports. |
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