December 22nd in History

1894: French officer, Alfred Dreyfus, found guilty of selling secrets to Germany
1895: Wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist, makes the first ever X-ray of his wife's hand

December 22nd birthdays

1639: Jean Racine, French playwright
1768: John Crome, English landscape painter
1858: Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer
1936: James Burke, British writer