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1 - 19 of 19 Interesting & Fun 23rd of December Facts: |
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| 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. |
| 1823 - The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel. |
| 1888 - Vincent Van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear, takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel. |
| 1913 - The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve. |
| 1916 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. |
| 1936 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
| 1947 - The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. |
| 1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1970 - Topping-out of World Trade Center's North Tower in New York City. |
| 1972 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000. |
| 1972 - All 16 survivors of the October 13 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 are rescued. |
| 1979 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital. |
| 1982 - The 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 and becomes the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world. |
| 1990 - History of Slovenia: 88% of Slovenia's population vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum. |
| 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 crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people. |
| 2005 - Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adre, which left about 100 people dead. |
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