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Events on the 23rd of December in history

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23 Dec 0484 Huneric dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics are free from persecutions.
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23 Dec 0558 Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
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23 Dec 0562 Hagia Sophia in Constantinople reopened with a rebuilt dome after a series of earthquakes caused the original to collapse.
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23 Dec 0583 Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
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23 Dec 0619 Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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23 Dec 0679 King Dagobert II is murdered while hunting.
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23 Dec 0962 Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo.
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23 Dec 1482 Peace of Atrecht
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23 Dec 1569 St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
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23 Dec 1572 Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.
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23 Dec 1620 French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
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23 Dec 1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
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23 Dec 1688 As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
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23 Dec 1688 English king Jacob II flees to France
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23 Dec 1690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
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23 Dec 1715 Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund
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23 Dec 1724 Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Australia Netherlands
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23 Dec 1728 Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin
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23 Dec 1751 France sets plan to tax clergymen
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23 Dec 1776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
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23 Dec 1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
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23 Dec 1779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
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23 Dec 1783 George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
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23 Dec 1788 Maryland votes to cede a 10 square mile area for District of Columbia
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23 Dec 1793 The Battle of Savenay: a decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
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23 Dec 1793 Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
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23 Dec 1823 "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
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23 Dec 1823 A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.
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23 Dec 1832 Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
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23 Dec 1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
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23 Dec 1852 1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
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23 Dec 1862 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
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23 Dec 1867 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightener)
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23 Dec 1876 First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
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23 Dec 1876 Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
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23 Dec 1888 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
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23 Dec 1893 The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
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23 Dec 1893 The opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
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23 Dec 1894 Debussy's ballet "L'apr
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23 Dec 1899 Southampton: field marshal lord Roberts departures to South Africa
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23 Dec 1899 Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa
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23 Dec 1899 Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway
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23 Dec 1907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pennsylvania
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23 Dec 1909 Albert becomes king of Belgium
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23 Dec 1911 Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
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23 Dec 1911 The opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
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23 Dec 1911 Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire" premieres in Munich
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23 Dec 1912 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
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23 Dec 1912 Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
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23 Dec 1913 The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
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23 Dec 1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
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23 Dec 1914 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
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23 Dec 1915 J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie" premieres in New York NY
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23 Dec 1916 World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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23 Dec 1917 3 British warships come close to Holland
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23 Dec 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
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23 Dec 1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
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23 Dec 1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
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23 Dec 1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
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23 Dec 1920 King George V signs Home Rule Act
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23 Dec 1921 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
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23 Dec 1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts
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23 Dec 1922 Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
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23 Dec 1923 Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
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23 Dec 1925 Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
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23 Dec 1926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
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23 Dec 1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
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23 Dec 1930 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York NY
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23 Dec 1930 Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
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23 Dec 1933 Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
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23 Dec 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
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23 Dec 1933 Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
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23 Dec 1936 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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23 Dec 1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
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23 Dec 1938 Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch of the West costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz"; she is severely burned and off the film for over one month
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23 Dec 1939 Finnish counter offensive at Summa
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23 Dec 1939 South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
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23 Dec 1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
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23 Dec 1940 John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance" premieres in New York NY
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23 Dec 1941 World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
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23 Dec 1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
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23 Dec 1941 British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
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23 Dec 1941 Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
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23 Dec 1942 Allies air attack on Den Helder
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23 Dec 1943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, New York
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23 Dec 1943 General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
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23 Dec 1944 Beginning of harsh winter
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23 Dec 1945 Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London
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23 Dec 1945 Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
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23 Dec 1946 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne University, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
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23 Dec 1946 Belgian Council of State forms
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23 Dec 1946 Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
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23 Dec 1947 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
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23 Dec 1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
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23 Dec 1948 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
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23 Dec 1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000); Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
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23 Dec 1951 Last Belgian communities get electricity
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23 Dec 1953 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
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23 Dec 1953 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins National League Rookie of Year
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23 Dec 1954 First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
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23 Dec 1957 Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson vs South Africa
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23 Dec 1958 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 performances
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23 Dec 1958 Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
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23 Dec 1958 Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco
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23 Dec 1960 De Quay's Dutch government falls
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23 Dec 1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
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23 Dec 1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62 million worth of food & medical supplies
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23 Dec 1961 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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23 Dec 1961 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
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23 Dec 1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion
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23 Dec 1962 Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
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23 Dec 1963 Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
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23 Dec 1963 Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
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23 Dec 1963 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
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23 Dec 1964 India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
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23 Dec 1966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go, " last program
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23 Dec 1967 Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy
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23 Dec 1967 Lyndon B Johnson meets Pope Paul VI at the Vatican
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23 Dec 1968 The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
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23 Dec 1968 1st documented US case of space motion sickness
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23 Dec 1968 82 members of US intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea
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23 Dec 1968 Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
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23 Dec 1968 North Korea releases Pueblo crew
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23 Dec 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.
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23 Dec 1970 The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a single-party state.
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23 Dec 1970 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
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23 Dec 1970 French author R
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23 Dec 1970 New York World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
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23 Dec 1970 USSR performs nuclear test
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23 Dec 1972 "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
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23 Dec 1972 A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
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23 Dec 1972 The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
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23 Dec 1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70 days, survived by cannibalism
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23 Dec 1972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
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23 Dec 1972 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
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23 Dec 1972 Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India vs England at Delhi
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23 Dec 1973 "Young and the Restless" premieres on TV
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23 Dec 1973 "The Young and the Restless" premieres on TV
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23 Dec 1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
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23 Dec 1973 French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
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23 Dec 1974 "Good News" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 16 performances
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23 Dec 1974 Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's Michelangelo-liederen
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23 Dec 1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
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23 Dec 1975 Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith & Dave McNally free agents
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23 Dec 1978 Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs. Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
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23 Dec 1979 Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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23 Dec 1979 New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
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23 Dec 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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23 Dec 1980 Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in New York NY
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23 Dec 1981 Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033
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23 Dec 1982 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
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23 Dec 1983 Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
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23 Dec 1984 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
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23 Dec 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.
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23 Dec 1986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
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23 Dec 1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
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23 Dec 1990 "Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 performances
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23 Dec 1990 History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
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23 Dec 1990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
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23 Dec 1991 New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
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23 Dec 1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
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23 Dec 1996 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
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23 Dec 1997 Chicago Bull coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games)
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23 Dec 1997 Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
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23 Dec 1997 Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing
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23 Dec 1997 US Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
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23 Dec 1997 Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow
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23 Dec 2002 An MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25.
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23 Dec 2003 PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
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23 Dec 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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23 Dec 2010 A monsoonal trough crosses the northeastern coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, bringing mass flooding across Queensland.
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