Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 22

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1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia.
1885 - Ito Hirobumi, a samurai from Choshu, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1989 - Romanian Revolution: After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu took over as President of Romania, ending the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu .
2001 - Burhanuddin Rabbani of the Northern Alliance handed over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by Hamid Karzai (pictured).
2001 - CC the cat, the first cloned pet, was born.