December 23rd Events |
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| December 23rd, 2005 (December 23 2005) | Event | Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people. | |
| December 23rd, 2005 (December 23 2005) | Event | Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adre, which left about 100 people dead. | |
| December 23rd, 2004 (December 23 2004) | Event | Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. | |
| December 23rd, 2003 (December 23 2003) | Event | PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234. | |
| December 23rd, 2002 (December 23 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. | |
| December 23rd, 1990 (December 23 1990) | Event | History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88% of Slovenia s population vote for independence from Yugoslavia. | |
| December 23rd, 1986 (December 23 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. | |
| December 23rd, 1982 (December 23 1982) | Event | The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri. | |
| December 23rd, 1979 (December 23 1979) | Event | Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital. | |
| December 23rd, 1972 (December 23 1972) | Event | The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000. | |
| December 23rd, 1972 (December 23 1972) | Event | The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism. | |
| December 23rd, 1968 (December 23 1968) | Event | The United States won the release of 82 sailors by issuing a writing apology to North Korea for spying on the Communist country. | |
| December 23rd, 1958 (December 23 1958) | Event | Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world s highest self-supporting iron tower. | |
| December 23rd, 1954 (December 23 1954) | Event | The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. | Al Murray Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1948 (December 23 1948) | Event | Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. | |
| December 23rd, 1947 (December 23 1947) | Event | The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. | |
| December 23rd, 1941 (December 23 1941) | Event | World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island. | |
| December 23rd, 1940 (December 23 1940) | Event | World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (?-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta. | |
| December 23rd, 1938 (December 23 1938) | Event | Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. | |
| December 23rd, 1937 (December 23 1937) | Event | First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber. | |
| December 23rd, 1936 (December 23 1936) | Event | Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| December 23rd, 1921 (December 23 1921) | Event | Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated. | |
| December 23rd, 1916 (December 23 1916) | Event | World War I: Battle of MagdhabaAllied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt s Sinai peninsula. | |
| December 23rd, 1914 (December 23 1914) | Event | World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt. | |
| December 23rd, 1913 (December 23 1913) | Event | The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve. | |
| December 23rd, 1793 (December 23 1793) | Event | The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendee during the French Revolution. | |
| December 23rd, 1783 (December 23 1783) | Event | George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. | George Washington Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1493 (December 23 1493) | Event | Georg Alt s German translation of Hartmann Schedel s Nuremberg Chronicle is published. | |
| December 23rd, 0962 (December 23 0962) | Event | Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist. | |
