WillDekkard
12-23-2010, 04:24 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - December 23rd
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* 962 Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo
* 1493 Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
* 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 Revolt 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 Hδnsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
* 1913 The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
* 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.
* 1921 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
* 1936 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1937 First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
* 1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
* 1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
* 1941 World War II: The Japanese Imperial 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.
* 1957 Ian Craig of Australia becomes the youngest Test cricket captain in history.
* 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 City 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 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% of Slovenia's population 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.
* 2004 An 8.1 magnitude earthquake hits Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean.
* 2005 Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
* 2005 Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adrι, which left about 100 people dead.
* 2008 The Guinean military engineers a coup d'ιtat, and announces that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election.
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This Date in History - December 23rd
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* 962 Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo
* 1493 Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
* 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 Revolt 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 Hδnsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
* 1913 The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
* 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.
* 1921 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
* 1936 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1937 First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
* 1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
* 1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
* 1941 World War II: The Japanese Imperial 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.
* 1957 Ian Craig of Australia becomes the youngest Test cricket captain in history.
* 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 City 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 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% of Slovenia's population 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.
* 2004 An 8.1 magnitude earthquake hits Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean.
* 2005 Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
* 2005 Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adrι, which left about 100 people dead.
* 2008 The Guinean military engineers a coup d'ιtat, and announces that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election.
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