SomeFacts | December 23

On this day - December 23

484 — The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene ...

558 — Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.

583 — Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.

962 — The Sack of Aleppo as part of the Arab–Byzantine wars: Under ...

1299 — The Ilkhanate ruler Ghazan defeats a Mamluk army that opposes ...

1598 — Arauco War: Governor of Chile Martín García Óñez de Loyola is ...

1688 — As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England ...

1773 — Moscow State Academy of Choreography is founded under the ...

1783 — George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the ...

1793 — The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist ...

1815 — The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.

1823 — The poem "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," ...

1876 — First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in ...

1893 — The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first ...

1905 — The Tampere conference, where Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin ...

1913 — The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President ...

1914 — World War I: During the Battle of Sarikamish, Ottoman forces ...

1914 — World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in ...

1916 — World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish ...

1919 — Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the ...

1936 — Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional ...

1936 — Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright ...

1941 — World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese ...

1947 — The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

1948 — Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war ...

1950 — Korean War: General Walton Walker dies in a jeep accident and ...

1954 — First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell ...

1955 — The first film adaptation of Väinö Linna's novel The ...

1960 — Hilkka Saarinen née Pylkkänen is murdered in the so-called ...

1968 — The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven ...

1970 — The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a ...

1970 — The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New ...

1972 — The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued ...

1972 — A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of ...

1972 — The Immaculate Reception is caught by Franco Harris to win the ...

1978 — Alitalia Flight 4128 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea while on ...

1979 — Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the ...

1984 — After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 ...

1986 — Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at ...

1990 — History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's ...

2002 — A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the ...

2003 — An explosion at the PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field ...

2005 — An Antonov An-140, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, ...

2007 — An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished ...

2008 — A coup d'état occurs in Guinea hours after the death of ...

2015 — A bomb explodes at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, ...

2023 — A series of massacres targeting Berom civilians unfold in the ...

2025 — The crash of Harmony Jets Flight 185 killed all eight people ...