The Most Noteworthy Events on December 23 in History

It’s December 23rd ALL DAY and these historical events occurred on December 23rd in history
1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
1688 King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange
1690 English astronomer John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
1776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
1779 American revolutionary officer Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct and profiteering
1783 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress
1788 Maryland votes to cede a 10 square mile area for District of Columbia
1793 Thomas Jefferson warns of slave revolts in the West Indies
1823 "Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
1866 First yacht race across the Atlantic won by the schooner Henrietta owned by Gordon Bennett of New York, first to reach Bishop Rock in the Scilly Isles after racing from NY
1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a female courtesan for safe keeping
1913 US President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law - creates the central banking Federal Reserve System
1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
1938 Margaret Hamilton's wicked witch costume catches fire while filming "The Wizard of Oz”
1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1943 General Bernard Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1947 Transistor invented by John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley in Bell Labs
1954 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
1968 1st US case of space motion sickness
1968 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the 1st people to orbit the Moon aboard Apollo 8
1970 NYC World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
1971 US President Richard Nixon commutes remaining 8 years of Teamsters labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa's 13-year jail term for bribery and fraud
1972 "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued from Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 after 72 days on the Andean Mountains, after only surviving through cannibalism
1975 US Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1982 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1986 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford, escapes from Alderson Prison
1994 Fearing arrest by the FBI, organized crime boss Whitey Bulger flees Boston, and successfully hides from law enforcement for the next 16 years
1997 "As Good as It Gets" film released written and directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt
1997 A Channukah candle is officially lighted in Vatican City for the 1st time to celebrate Hanukkah and to reconcile Roman Catholics and Jews
1997 Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing

1997 US Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
2002 A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and a modern unmanned drone had engaged in combat
2016 United Nations Security Council adopts a landmark resolution demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. Resolution 2334 was moved by New Zealand, Malaysia, Senegal and Venezuela and passed 14-0 with a US abstention.
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