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12-23-2012, 05:10 AM
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This Date in History - December 23rd
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484 Huneric dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics are free from persecutions.
962 ArabByzantine Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo.
1572 Theologian Johann Sylvan executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.
1688 As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
1783 George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
1793 The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendιe during the French Revolution.
1823 A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.
1893 The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1913 The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
1914 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1916 World War I: Battle of Magdhaba Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
1921 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
1936 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1936 First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
1941 World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
1947 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1948 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
1954 First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1958 Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
1968 The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
1970 The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
1972 A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
1972 The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
1979 Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
1982 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
1990 History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
2002 A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
2003 PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
2007 An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
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This Date in History - December 23rd
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484 Huneric dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics are free from persecutions.
962 ArabByzantine Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo.
1572 Theologian Johann Sylvan executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.
1688 As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
1783 George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
1793 The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendιe during the French Revolution.
1823 A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.
1893 The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1913 The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
1914 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1916 World War I: Battle of Magdhaba Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
1921 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
1936 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1936 First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
1941 World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
1947 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1948 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
1954 First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1958 Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
1968 The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
1970 The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
1972 A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
1972 The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
1979 Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
1982 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
1990 History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
2002 A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
2003 PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
2007 An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
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