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23 December, 2007
A grand conjunction in which the solar system aligned with the galactic center.
23 December, 2005
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
23 December, 2005
Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.
23 December, 2004
Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.
23 December, 2002
A MQ-1 Predator was shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
23 December, 1990
History of Slovenia: 88% of Slovenias population vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum.
23 December, 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.
23 December, 1982
The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
23 December, 1979
Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
23 December, 1972
The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000.
23 December, 1972
The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
23 December, 1972
The Pittsburgh Steelers win their first ever post-season NFL game, defeating the Oakland Raiders 13-7, on a last second play that would become known as The Immaculate Reception.
23 December, 1958
Dedication of Tokyo Tower, worlds highest self-supporting iron tower.
23 December, 1954
The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
23 December, 1948
Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
23 December, 1947
The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
23 December, 1941
World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupied Wake Island.
23 December, 1940
World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (?-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
23 December, 1938
South Africa Discovery of the first modern coelacanth.
23 December, 1937
First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
23 December, 1936
Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
23 December, 1921
Visva-Bharati University inaugurated.
23 December, 1916
World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypts Sinai peninsula.
23 December, 1914
World War I: The Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo.
23 December, 1913
The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
23 December, 1911
Stanislavski and Craigs seminal production of Hamlet opened at the Moscow Arts Theatre.
23 December, 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.
23 December, 1823
The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel.
23 December, 1793
The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
23 December, 1783
George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
23 December, 1493
Georg Alts German translation of Hartmann Schedels Nuremberg Chronicle is published.

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