History for December 22 - On-This-Day.com: 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.
1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers. 
1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.
1990 - Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president.
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