Notable Historical Events on December 23rd
December 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
619 |
Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
962 |
Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist. |
1482 |
Peace of Atrecht |
1493 |
Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published. |
1620 |
French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII |
1672 |
Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn |
1688 |
English King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France and from William of Orange |
1690 |
English astronomer John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered |
1715 |
Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund |
1724 |
Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Aust Neth |
1728 |
Prussian Emperor Karel VI signs Treaty of Berlin |
1751 |
France sets plan to tax clergymen |
1776 |
Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France |
1776 |
Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" |
1779 |
Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct |
1783 |
General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress |
1788 |
Maryland votes to cede a 10 sqaure mile area for District of Columbia |
1793 |
Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies |
1823 |
"Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel |
1832 |
Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender |
1834 |
Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs |
1852 |
1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco |
1862 |
Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis |
1876 |
Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed |
1888 |
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear |
1893 |
Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar) |
1894 |
Debussy's ballet "L'aprés-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris |
1899 |
British Field Marshall Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa for the 2nd Boer War |
1899 |
Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway |
1900 |
As American forces defeat the Filipino insurgents and impose civil authority, some Filipinos form a Federal Party with a platform recognizing US sovereignty |
1907 |
1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa |
1909 |
Albert I becomes the third King of the Belgians |
1911 |
Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire" premieres in Munich |
1911 |
Opera "I Gioielli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin) |
1912 |
1st "Keystone Kops" film, entitled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy" |
1912 |
Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation |
1912 |
In Delhi, India, terrorist agitation continues as British Viceroy Lord Hardinge is wounded by a bomb explosion |
1913 |
President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law |
1914 |
World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt. |
1915 |
J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie" premieres in NYC |
1916 |
World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. |
1917 |
3 British warships come close to Holland |
1919 |
1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched |
1919 |
Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace |
1920 |
Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland |
1921 |
Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated. |
1921 |
Gangster Carlo Gambino enters the United States as an illegal immigrant on the SS Vincenzo Florio |
1922 |
BBC Radio began daily newscasts |
1922 |
Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano |
1923 |
Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000 |
1925 |
Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah |
1926 |
KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions |
1928 |
NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network |
1930 |
Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios |
1930 |
Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC |
1933 |
Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251 |
1933 |
Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death |
1933 |
Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die |
1936 |
Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty |
1937 |
First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber. |
1938 |
Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz" |
1938 |
Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. |
1939 |
Finnish counter offensive at Summa |
1939 |
South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland |
1940 |
John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance" premieres in NYC |
1941 |
American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese |
1941 |
British troops overrun Benghazi Libya |
1941 |
Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma |
1942 |
Allies air attack on Den Helder |
1943 |
1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY |
1943 |
Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day |
1944 |
Beginning of harsh winter |
1945 |
Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London |
1945 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church |
1946 |
Belgian Council of State forms |
1946 |
Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers) |
1946 |
U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game |
1947 |
Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs |
1951 |
Last Belgian communities get electricity |
1951 |
1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) LA Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game |
1952 |
Alain Bombard arrives in Barbados after 65 days at sea proving his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive with almost no provisions, despite having lost 25 kg (65 lbs)in weight |
1953 |
Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year |
1954 |
The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. |
1957 |
Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson v South Africa |
1958 |
"Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 perfs |
1958 |
Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco |
1960 |
De Quay's Dutch government falls |
1960 |
King Saudi of Saudi Arabia takes power |
1961 |
KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
Train accident in Italy, 70 die |
1961 |
Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies |
1962 |
Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion |
1962 |
Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game |
1963 |
Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig" |
1963 |
Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die |
1964 |
India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed |
1966 |
Britain's rock TV show "Ready Steady Go" last program |
1967 |
Brussels: NATO Council accept "Flexible Response" strategy |
1968 |
1st US case of space motion sickness |
1968 |
82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea |
1968 |
Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon |
1970 |
7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" (record) |
1970 |
French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia |
1970 |
NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1970 |
A Protestant man is shot dead at his home in Belfast, North Ireland |
1971 |
British Prime Minister Edward Heath visits Northern Ireland and expresses his determination to end the violence |
1972 |
16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism |
1972 |
6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die |
1972 |
Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi |
1972 |
Islanders end 15 games winless streak |
1972 |
"Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7 |
1973 |
"Young & Restless" premieres on TV |
1973 |
6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices |
1973 |
French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed |
1974 |
"Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1974 |
Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen |
1975 |
Congress passes Metric Conversion Act |
1975 |
Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith & Dave McNally free agents |
1978 |
Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against NY Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period |
1979 |
NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in NYC |
1981 |
Geoff Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Cricket with 8033 |
1982 |
The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri. |
1983 |
Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter |
1984 |
Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG |
1986 |
Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands |
1987 |
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of Pres Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison |
1990 |
"Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 perfs |
1990 |
Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia |
1991 |
NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns |
1994 |
Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players |
1994 |
Fearing arrest by the FBI, Whitey Bulger flees Boston, and successfully hides from law enforcement for the next 16 years |
1996 |
4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history |
1997 |
Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games) |
1997 |
Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals |
1997 |
Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing |
1997 |
US Agriculture Dept estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18 |
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, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234. |
2004 |
Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. |
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 Adré, which left about 100 people dead. |
2012 |
200 civilians are killed by Syrian government warplanes in Helfaya, Syria |
2012 |
The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic |
2015 |
At least 30 injured in explosion in Cardenas, Mexico |
2016 |
Ivanka Trump accosted on JetBlue flight by passenger |
2016 |
Deutsche Bank to Pay $7.2 Billion in Bond Settlement |
2017 |
32 killed as bus falls into river in western India |
2017 |
Storm leaves 75 dead, dozens missing in southern Philippines |
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