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23rd of December 0962 EVENT Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo
23rd of December 1493 EVENT Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
23rd of December 1688 EVENT As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees England to Paris after being deposed in favour of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
23rd of December 1783 EVENT George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
23rd of December 1793 EVENT The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendee during the French Revolution.
23rd of December 1823 EVENT A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.
23rd of December 1893 EVENT The opera Hansel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
23rd of December 1913 EVENT The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
23rd of December 1914 EVENT World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
23rd of December 1916 EVENT World War I: Battle of Magdhaba : Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
23rd of December 1919 EVENT Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the UK.
23rd of December 1921 EVENT Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
23rd of December 1936 EVENT Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
23rd of December 1937 EVENT First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
23rd of December 1938 EVENT Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
23rd of December 1940 EVENT World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (?-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
23rd of December 1941 EVENT World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
23rd of December 1947 EVENT The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
23rd of December 1948 EVENT Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
23rd of December 1958 EVENT Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
23rd of December 1968 EVENT The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
23rd of December 1970 EVENT 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.
23rd of December 1972 EVENT The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
23rd of December 1972 EVENT A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
23rd of December 1979 EVENT Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
23rd of December 1982 EVENT The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
23rd of December 1986 EVENT 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.
23rd of December 1990 EVENT History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88% of Slovenia's population vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
23rd of December 2002 EVENT 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.
23rd of December 2003 EVENT PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
23rd of December 2005 EVENT Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adre, which left about 100 people dead.
23rd of December 0245 BIRTHDAY Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
23rd of December 1173 BIRTHDAY Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)
23rd of December 1513 BIRTHDAY Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
23rd of December 1582 BIRTHDAY Severo Bonini, Italian composer (d. 1663)
23rd of December 1597 BIRTHDAY Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
23rd of December 1613 BIRTHDAY Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
23rd of December 1621 BIRTHDAY Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
23rd of December 1621 BIRTHDAY Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
23rd of December 1689 BIRTHDAY Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
23rd of December 1713 BIRTHDAY Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (d. 1749)
23rd of December 1732 BIRTHDAY Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
23rd of December 1743 BIRTHDAY Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
23rd of December 1750 BIRTHDAY King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
23rd of December 1758 BIRTHDAY Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York (d. 1834)
23rd of December 1777 BIRTHDAY Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
23rd of December 1790 BIRTHDAY Jean Francois Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
23rd of December 1804 BIRTHDAY Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
23rd of December 1805 BIRTHDAY Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader (d. 1844)
23rd of December 1819 BIRTHDAY Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
23rd of December 1822 BIRTHDAY Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
23rd of December 1843 BIRTHDAY Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
23rd of December 1854 BIRTHDAY Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)
23rd of December 1864 BIRTHDAY Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
23rd of December 1867 BIRTHDAY Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (d. 1919)
23rd of December 1878 BIRTHDAY Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
23rd of December 1885 BIRTHDAY Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
23rd of December 1891 BIRTHDAY Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
23rd of December 1896 BIRTHDAY Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (d. 1957)
23rd of December 1900 BIRTHDAY Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
23rd of December 1902 BIRTHDAY Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
23rd of December 1907 BIRTHDAY Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
23rd of December 1907 BIRTHDAY Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)
23rd of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born, Canadian portrait photographer (d. 2002)
23rd of December 1910 BIRTHDAY Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (d. 1961)
23rd of December 1911 BIRTHDAY Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
23rd of December 1911 BIRTHDAY James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
23rd of December 1916 BIRTHDAY Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 2008)
23rd of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
23rd of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Jose Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
23rd of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
23rd of December 1919 BIRTHDAY Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (d. 2006)
23rd of December 1921 BIRTHDAY Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
23rd of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
23rd of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Onofre Marimon, Argentine racing driver (d. 1954)
23rd of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Gunther Schifter, Austrian music journalist (d. 2008)
23rd of December 1923 BIRTHDAY James Stockdale, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005)
23rd of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
23rd of December 1925 BIRTHDAY Duncan Hallas, British political figure (d. 2002)
23rd of December 1925 BIRTHDAY Rayner Unwin, British book publisher (d. 2000)
23rd of December 1926 BIRTHDAY Robert Bly, American poet
23rd of December 1928 BIRTHDAY Chronis Aidonidis, Greek singer
23rd of December 1929 BIRTHDAY Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
23rd of December 1929 BIRTHDAY Dick Weber, American professional tenpin bowler (d. 2005)
23rd of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Ronnie Schell, American actor
23rd of December 1933 BIRTHDAY Akihito, Emperor of Japan
23rd of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
23rd of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Paul Hornung, American football player
23rd of December 1936 BIRTHDAY Frederic Forrest, American actor
23rd of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Edward Irving Wortis, American author
23rd of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Barney Rosenzweig, American television producer
23rd of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
23rd of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Jorma Kaukonen, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
23rd of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Robert Labine, French-Canadian politician
23rd of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Eugene Record, American singer (The Chi-Lites) (d. 2005)
23rd of December 1941 BIRTHDAY Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
23rd of December 1941 BIRTHDAY Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (d. 1975)
23rd of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of Australia
23rd of December 1942 BIRTHDAY John Peterman, American fashion designer
23rd of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
23rd of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Harry Shearer, American actor
23rd of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
23rd of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Ron Allen, American baseball player
23rd of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
23rd of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Wesley Clark, American military officer
23rd of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
23rd of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
23rd of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Susan Lucci, American actress
23rd of December 1946 BIRTHDAY John Sullivan, British screenwriter (d. 2011)
23rd of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Graham Bonnet, English musician
23rd of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, composer, educator, author, and music journalist
23rd of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Leslie Moonves, American television executive
23rd of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Jack Ham, American football player
23rd of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Adrian Belew, American musician
23rd of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Vicente del Bosque, Spanish football manager
23rd of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Michael C. Burgess, American politician
23rd of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author
23rd of December 1951 BIRTHDAY Anthony Phillips, British musician (Genesis)
23rd of December 1952 BIRTHDAY William Kristol, American political commentator
23rd of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
23rd of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
23rd of December 1956 BIRTHDAY Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
23rd of December 1956 BIRTHDAY Dave Murray, English musician (Iron Maiden)
23rd of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Dan Bigras, Canadian singer
23rd of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Trisha Goddard, English television presenter
23rd of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Joan Severance, American actress
23rd of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Victoria Williams, American singer
23rd of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Geoff Willis, British engineer
23rd of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Carol Smillie, British television personality
23rd of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist.
23rd of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Bertrand Gachot, Belgian racing driver
23rd of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Great Muta, Japanese professional wrestler
23rd of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Kang Je-gyu, South Korean film director
23rd of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Jim Harbaugh, American football player
23rd of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Donna Tartt, American author
23rd of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)
23rd of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Carla Bruni, Italian-French model and singer
23rd of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Otis Grant, Jamaican-Canadian Professional Boxer
23rd of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Tim Fountain, British playwright
23rd of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Quincy Jones III, Swedish-American musician
23rd of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, American photographer
23rd of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Martha Byrne, American actress
23rd of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Rob Pelinka, American sports agent
23rd of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater
23rd of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Karine Polwart, Scottish folk singer-songwriter
23rd of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Holly Samos, British radio presenter
23rd of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Raymont Harris, American football player
23rd of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Corey Haim, Canadian actor (d. 2010)
23rd of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter
23rd of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
23rd of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Michalis Klokidis, Greek footballer
23rd of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Wim Vansevenant, Belgian cyclist
23rd of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Agustin Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
23rd of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
23rd of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Sky Lopez, American actress
23rd of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Brad Lidge, American baseball player
23rd of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Greek footballer
23rd of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
23rd of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Alge Crumpler, American football player
23rd of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Paul Shirley, American basketball player
23rd of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Matt Baker, British television presenter
23rd of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Jari Maenpaa, Finnish guitarist and singer
23rd of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
23rd of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Jodie Marsh, British glamour model
23rd of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Andra Davis, American football player
23rd of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Victor Martinez, Venezuelan baseball player
23rd of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
23rd of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Summer Altice, American model and actress
23rd of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Holly Madison, American model
23rd of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player
23rd of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
23rd of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Cody Ross, American baseball player
23rd of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Elvin Ng, Singaporean actor
23rd of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Beth, Spanish singer
23rd of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Yuriorkis Gamboa, Cuban boxer
23rd of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Maritza Correia, American swimmer
23rd of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Brad Nelson, American baseball player
23rd of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Hanley Ramirez, Dominican baseball player
23rd of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Michael Chopra, English footballer
23rd of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Carlos Jimenez, Spanish ice hockey player
23rd of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Joseph Stacey, British actor
23rd of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Sebastian Werle, German rugby player
23rd of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
23rd of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
23rd of December 1986 BIRTHDAY TJ Oshie, American ice hockey player
23rd of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer
23rd of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Owen Franks, New Zealand All Black rugby player
23rd of December 1988 BIRTHDAY Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
23rd of December 1990 BIRTHDAY Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
23rd of December 1992 BIRTHDAY Jeffrey Schlupp, German footballer
23rd of December 0668 DEATH Mor Gabriel, Syriac Orthodox Saint (Born 594)
23rd of December 0679 DEATH King Dagobert II of Austrasia (Born c. 650)
23rd of December 0910 DEATH Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
23rd of December 0918 DEATH Conrad I of Germany
23rd of December 1230 DEATH Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
23rd of December 1556 DEATH Nicholas Udall, English playwright (Born 1504)
23rd of December 1568 DEATH Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
23rd of December 1575 DEATH Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese military commander (Born 1531)
23rd of December 1588 DEATH Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (Born 1550)
23rd of December 1631 DEATH Michael Drayton, English poet (Born 1563)
23rd of December 1646 DEATH Francois Maynard, French poet (Born 1582)
23rd of December 1652 DEATH John Cotton, English-born American minister (Born 1585)
23rd of December 1675 DEATH Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (Born 1602)
23rd of December 1722 DEATH Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (Born 1654)
23rd of December 1761 DEATH Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
23rd of December 1771 DEATH Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (Born 1701)
23rd of December 1779 DEATH Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (Born 1724)
23rd of December 1789 DEATH Charles-Michel de l'Epee, French philanthropist (Born 1712)
23rd of December 1793 DEATH Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (Born 1699)
23rd of December 1793 DEATH Antoine Francois Prevost, French author and novelist (Born 1697)
23rd of December 1795 DEATH Henry Clinton, British general (Born 1730)
23rd of December 1805 DEATH Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (Born 1723)
23rd of December 1834 DEATH Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (Born 1766)
23rd of December 1846 DEATH Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (Born 1780)
23rd of December 1902 DEATH Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1821)
23rd of December 1912 DEATH Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (Born 1850)
23rd of December 1931 DEATH Wilson Bentley, American scientist (Born 1865)
23rd of December 1939 DEATH Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (Born 1890)
23rd of December 1946 DEATH Kiki Preston, American socialite (Born 1898)
23rd of December 1946 DEATH John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (Born 1873)
23rd of December 1948 DEATH Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (Born 1883)
23rd of December 1948 DEATH Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (Born 1884)
23rd of December 1953 DEATH Lavrenty Beria, Soviet politician (Born 1899)
23rd of December 1954 DEATH Rene Iche, French sculptor (Born 1897)
23rd of December 1961 DEATH Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (Born 1910)
23rd of December 1970 DEATH Charles Ruggles, American actor (Born 1886)
23rd of December 1971 DEATH Pasha Hristova, Bulgarian singer (Born 1946)
23rd of December 1972 DEATH Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (Born 1888)
23rd of December 1973 DEATH Charles Atlas, Italian-born American bodybuilder (Born 1892)
23rd of December 1973 DEATH Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (Born 1901)
23rd of December 1979 DEATH Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (Born 1898)
23rd of December 1982 DEATH Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (Born 1920)
23rd of December 1983 DEATH Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (Born 1910)
23rd of December 1984 DEATH Joan Lindsay, Australian author (Born 1896)
23rd of December 1992 DEATH Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (Born 1934)
23rd of December 1992 DEATH Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (Born 1950)
23rd of December 1994 DEATH Sebastian Shaw, English actor (Born 1905)
23rd of December 1997 DEATH Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (Born 1908)
23rd of December 1998 DEATH Michelle Thomas, American actress (Born 1968)
23rd of December 2000 DEATH Billy Barty, American actor (Born 1924)
23rd of December 2000 DEATH Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (Born 1926)
23rd of December 2000 DEATH Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (Born 1909)
23rd of December 2001 DEATH Bola Ige, Nigerian politician (Born 1930)
23rd of December 2004 DEATH P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (Born 1921)
23rd of December 2005 DEATH Norman D. Vaughan, American polar explorer and musher (Born 1905)
23rd of December 2005 DEATH Lajos Baroti, Hungarian footballer and coach (Born 1914)
23rd of December 2006 DEATH Johnny Vincent, English footballer (Born 1947)
23rd of December 2006 DEATH Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (Born 1952)
23rd of December 2006 DEATH Marilyn Waltz, American actress and model (Born 1931)
23rd of December 2006 DEATH Charlie Drake, English comedian (Born 1925)
23rd of December 2007 DEATH Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (Born 1925)
23rd of December 2007 DEATH Michael Kidd, American film and stage choreographer (Born 1915)
23rd of December 2007 DEATH William Francis Ganong, American physiologist (Born 1924)
23rd of December 2009 DEATH Robert L. Howard, American Vietnam War soldier; Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1939)
23rd of December 2009 DEATH Edward Schillebeeckx, Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (Born 1914)
23rd of December 2009 DEATH Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan official (Born 1910)
23rd of December 2010 DEATH K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (Born 1918)
23rd of December 2010 DEATH Fred Hargesheimer, American World War II pilot (Born 1916)