About December 23
December 23, 2024 is the 358th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 8 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 37 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 23
- 962 –Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo
- 1572 –Theologian Johann Sylvan executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs
- 1783 –George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
- 1793 –The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
- 1823 –A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.
- 1893 –The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
- 1919 –Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the UK.
- 1936 –First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
- 1938 –Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
- 1940 –World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
- 1941 –World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
- 1948 –Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
- 1968 –The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
- 1970 –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.
- 1972 –The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
- 1979 –Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
- 1982 –The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
- 2002 –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.
- 2003 –PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
- 2007 –An agreement is made for the monarchy of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
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