December 23

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 23. From 1900 until now. December 23 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Carla Bruni Sarkozy (1967), Eddie Vedder (1964) and Jean-Luc Lahaye (1952). Several movies were released around December 23 over the years, such as Devdas in 1955 directed by Bimal Roy and Scarlet Street in 1945 directed by Fritz Lang.
But much more happened on December 23 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Festivus (from sitcom Seinfeld)
Oaxaca - Night of the Radishes
Secular humanism (American) - HumanLight observed
R.C. Saints - John Cantius ; Thorlac Thorhallsson, patron saint of Iceland
Sweden - Birthday of Queen Silvia, an official flag day
Japan - The Emperor's Birthday - Birthday of Akihito, the current Emperor of Japan
Roman festivals - Larentalia, a festival in honor of Larenta
Ancient Latvia - Ziemassvetki held
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Events

2018 Gatwick Airport drone incident: The two people arrested by police two days earlier are released without charges. (Reuters)
2017 2017 Pacific typhoon season: Tropical Storm Tembin: More than 200 people are dead in the southern Philippines as a result of floods and mudslides caused by Severe Tropical Storm Vinta. (Reuters)
2016 Syrian Civil War: The bodies of over 100 Syrian Army POWs are reportedly found in what was the last rebel held territory of East Aleppo. Syrian Army officers claim they were executed by rebel forces. (Al-Masdar News)
2015 Syrian Civil War: Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War: Amnesty International reports at least 200 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria, indicating "serious failures by Russia to respect international humanitarian law". Moscow denies causing civilian deaths. (BBC)
2014 Insurgency in Northeast India:: December 2014 Assam violence: Attacks on villages in the Indian state of Assam kill dozens of people. Suspicion falls on the insurgents of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland. (NDTV)(Euronews)(Al Jazeera)As a result, India imposes curfew on parts of Assam. (NBC News)
2013 War in North-West Pakistan:: The Pakistani army launches a military offensive against Taliban insurgents near the Afghan border. There are accusations that dozens of civilians are killed. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian civil war:: Up to 200 civilians are killed by Syrian government warplanes in the town of Helfaya, Hama province. (Reuters) (BBC) (Al Arabiya)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian state media report the deaths of at least 40 people in two car bombings in the capital Damascus. (BBC)
2010 Hundreds of South Korean troops, tanks, helicopters and jet fighters gather 12 miles from the border with North Korea to stage one of South Korea's largest ever live fire military drills in a ampquotshow of forceampquot before its neighbour. North Korea describes the exercises as ampquotwarmongeringampquot, and threatens a ampquotsacred warampquot. (Al Jazeera)
2009 Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Jim Moriarty resigns, the second bishop to do so following the publication of the Murphy Report. (RTÉ) (BBC) (Bangkok Post)
2008 US President George W. Bush signs H.R. 6184 "America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008" into law, as Public Lal 110-456. The program encompasses a new series of circulating and non-circulating coins depicting national sites of each state and territory, and the District of Columbia, five designs per year, beginning in 2010. In addition to circulating quarter dollar coins, 5-ounce silver coins will also be produced for each design.
2007 Thailand's People Power Party, led by Samak Sundaravej, wins the 2007 general elections. (BBC News)
2006 The UN Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1737, sanctioning Iran for its nuclear program. (Bloomberg)
2005 U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following the Iraqi elections.
2004 An earthquake of moment magnitude 8.1 occurs at 14:59 UTC, 305 miles (491 km) north of Macquarie Island. (USGS)
2003 PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
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.
2000 Victor Borge, 91, Danish comedian, conductor and pianist.
1997 Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted Daughter of Mia Farrow
1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players.
1991 New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns.
1990 Lettice & Lovage closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 performances
1989 Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu are captured in Târgoviște.
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of US President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison.
1986 Rutan andYeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
1983 Journal Science publishes first report on nuclear winter.
1982 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday - Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at age 62.
1979 New York Islanders' greatest shutout loss (8-0) versus Chicago Black Hawks.
1976 A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire.
1975 Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents
1974 Good News opens at St. James Theater NYC for 16 performances
1973 Young and the Restless premieres on TV
1972 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
1970 New York World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m).
1968 Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
1967 Brussels: NATO-Council accept Flexible Response-strategy
1966 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, last program
1964 India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed.
1963 Beach Boys 1st appearance on Shindig
1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1961 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power.
1958 Party with Comden & Green opens at John Golden NYC for 38 performances
1956 British and French troops leave the Suez Canal region.
1953 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Junior Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1951 Last Belgian communities get electricity.
1948 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs
1946 Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1945 Frederick Astons Cinderella premieres in London
1944 Beginning of harsh winter
1943 First telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York.
1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (?-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
1939 South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland in cricket.
1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
1937 First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1936 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
1931 Tyrone Power Sr, American actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at age 62.
1930 Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network.
1926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1925 Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah.
1922 Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano.
1921 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
1920 Ireland divided into two parts, each with its own parliament.
1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace.
1916 World War I: Battle of Magdhaba : Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
1915 The HMHS ''Britannic'', the largest individual British loss in WWI, departs Liverpool on her maiden voyage.
1914 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
1912 Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation.
1909 Albert becomes king of Belgium.
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Famous Birthday

Carla Bruni Sarkozy
Eddie Vedder: American musician (Pearl Jam).
Jean-Luc Lahaye: French pop singer, former TV host, and...
Beatriz Luengo
Chet Baker: Jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a...
Corey Haim: Canadian actor (Born 1971).
Queen Silvia of Sweden
Pierre Bérégovoy: French economist.
Albert Jacquard: French geneticist, researcher and...
Cláudia Raia: Brazilian actress on TV and theater;...
Estella Warren: Canadian model and actress.
Holly Madison
Jodie Marsh: British glamour model.
Susan Lucci
Akihito : Japanese royalty, the son of Emperor...
Georges Aperghis: Composer.
Marie Bell: French actress on screen from 1924 to...
Christa Worthington: American writer, a fashion journalist...
Helmut Schmidt: German Social Democratic (SPD)...
Summer Altice: American model and actress.
Donna Tartt: American author.
Joan Severance: American model actress and producer.
Finn Wolfhard
Ina Klink
Jim Harbaugh: American quarterback and athlete.
Michele Alboreto: Italian race car driver, Champion in the...
Noël Lucas
Giba (volleyball player)
Laurent Negro: French founder of the first agency in...
Serge Reding: Belgian weightlifter, the world champion...
Jean Gachassin: French rugby player, nicknamed ‘’Peter...
Carol Smillie: British television personality.
Katie Underwood
Astrid Zekul: German physicist, mathematician,...
Suzi Harvey: American-British pro astrologer,...
Gala León García
Dino Risi: Italian film critic, scriptwriter and...
Nick Moran
Vicente Del Bosque
Tatana Kucharova
A Fine Frenzy
Dan Bigras: Canadian singer-songwriter and actor.
Wesley Clark: American politician and retired military...
Wesley Clark: American politician and retired military...
Anna Maria Perez de Taglé
Frederic Forrest: American actor; off-Broadway debut in...
Manuela Moura Guedes
Jennifer Hoffman
Robert Bly: American poet, translator, editor and...
Hanley Ramírez: Dominican baseball player.
Jose Greco: Italian-American dancer; born in Italy...
Jean Lacroix
Amédée Borsari
Didier Quentin
Dave Murray: Guitarist.
Esther Phillips: American singer known for her R&B...
Holly Dale: Canadian film maker who works in team...
Harry Shearer: American actor and director, a satirical...
Mikhail Gromov: Russian-French mathematician and...
Micheline Ostermeyer: French athlete and concert pianist, a...
Harry Judd: Drummer.
Claudio Scimone: Italian musician and founder of the...
Kenneth Negus: American astrologer and professor of...
Bertrand Gachot: Belgian race car driver.
Monique Watteau: Belgian author, artist, painter, wrote...
Jean-Louis Fousseret
Jorma Kaukonen: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
Pernilla Mansson-Colt
Joseph Crane: American professional astrologer,...
James Roosevelt: American politician and businessman from...
James Ippolito: American engineer, the State Director of...
Charlie Williams (comedian)
Esthero : Canadian-American singer-songwriter and...
Belsy (singer)
Marcelin Pleynet
Bill Rodgers: American runner who dominated the...
Andrée Putman: French designer.
Jamie Noble: American professional wrestler.
Henry Cuesta: American musician, a clarinet player...
Paul Hornung: American athlete, pro football player,...
Jerry Koosman: American baseball pitcher for the Auburn...
Dante Spanghero: French rugby player.
Augustin Delgado
Mathieu Brosseau
Adrian Belew: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
George Brasno: American midget, the brother of fellow...
Yuka Kashino: Japanese singer and dancer.
Éric Lévi
Dominique Manotti
Bernard Grasset (politician)
Theo Kogan
David Nyhan: American journalist who wrote for the...
Églantine Éméyé
Tony Ramoin
Graham Bonnet: English singer-songwriter (The Marbles...
Claude Challe
Elizabeth Hartman: Actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at...
Scott Gomez: American ice hockey player.
Keiji Mutoh: Japanese wrestler and actor.
Brad Lidge: American baseball player.
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Famous Deaths

Didier Rocher: French business executive and noted...
Rina Ketty: Italian-French singer (d. 1996).
Jack Webb: American actor who was onscreen from...
Edward Schillebeeckx: Flemish theologian who worked in the...
Eddie Hazel: American guitarist...
Charlie Drake: British comic (Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb,...
Benito Lynch: Irish / Argentine writer (Palo Verde),...
Edward FLW Halifax: English viscount / Viceroy of India,...
Lester Lonergan Jr: Actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65.
George Saiko: Writer, dies at 70.
Arrigo Pedrollo: Composer, dies at 86.
Hv Doderer: Writer, dies at 70.
Robert Keith: Actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies...
Karen Verne: Actress (Ships of Fools, Underground),...
Richard Flury: Composer, dies at 71.
Donald Foster: Actor (Scaramouche), dies after long...
Carlo Jachino: Composer, dies at 84.
Frank Forest: Actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne...
Paul M Frank Forest: Dies at 80.
Walter Bauer: Writer, dies at 72.
Norman Dinnerstein: Composer, dies at 45.
Josef Alexander: Composer, dies at 82.
Nora Dunfree: US actress (Grass Harp), dies at 78.
Sebastian Lewis Shaw: Actor (High Season, Ace of Spades), dies...
Patric Reginald Lawrence Knowles: Actor (Chisum, Mutiny), dies at 84.
Stanlye Cortez: Cinematographer, dies at 89.
Charles Ruggles: American actor (Born 1886).
Norman D Vaughan: American polar explorer and musher (Born...
Eduard Wachmann composer: dies at age 72.
Karl L Hoschna composer: dies at age 34.
Anthony H G Fokker: Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at...
Lavrenti P Beria: soviet minister of internal security,...
Lord Irwin: ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at age...
Ruth Fuller Sasaki: head of first Zen Institute of America,...
Andrej N Tupolev: Russian aircraft builder, dies at age...
Richard S Welch: US Central Intelligence Agency station...
James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18) commit suicide: sparking their families to sue rock...
Byron Q Griffith: producer/actor, dies at age 73.
Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom: actress, shot to death at about age 92.
Charles Shirley: jazz arranger, dies at age 74.
Gabrielle Keiller: collector/golfer, dies at age 87.
David Land: impressario, dies at age 77.
Austin Whitaker: schoolmaster classical...
Brian Malzard Foss: psychologist, dies at age 76.
Donald Gunn MacRae: sociologist, dies at age 76.
Hrvoje Horvatic: video artist, dies at age 39.
Keith Bentley: international racing cyclist, dies at...
Wilson Bentley: American scientist (Born 1865).
Kiki Preston: American socialite (Born 1898).
John A Sampson: American gynecologist (Born 1873).
Rene Iche: French sculptor (Born 1897).
Pasha Hristova: Bulgarian singer (Born 1946).
Bola Ige: Nigerian politician (Born 1930).
Lajos Baroti: Hungarian footballer and coach (Born...
Johnny Vincent: English footballer (Born 1947).
Timothy J Tobias: American composer and musician (Born...
William Francis Ganong: American physiologist (Born 1924).
Robert L Howard: American Vietnam War soldier; Medal of...
Fred Hargesheimer: American World War II pilot (Born 1916).
Charles Atlas: Italian-American physical culturist...
Anthony Fokker: Indonesian Dutch-German engineer, pilot,...
Michelle Thomas: American actress (Born 1968).
Ronnie Scott: British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz...
Charlie Ruggles: Actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show),...
Roland Leighton: English soldier and poet (d. 1915).
Irna Phillips: American television writer, director,...
K Karunakaran: Indian lawyer and politician 7th Chief...
Otto Schoetensack: German anthropologist and academic (d....
Michael Kidd: American film and stage choreographer...
Robert Herrick: US writer (Chimes), dies at age 70.
Peggy Guggenheim: American-Italian art collector and...
Vincenzo Tommasini: Italian composer (d. 1950).
Luis Alberni: Spanish-American actor and singer (d....
Billy Barty: American actor and singer (d. 2000).
Francois A Gevaert: Belg / Dutch Composer (Diable au...
Andrei Tupolev: Russian engineer and designer founded...
Joan Lindsay: Australian author and critic (d. 1984).
Frederick Temple: English archbishop and academic (d....
Kurt Meyer: German SS officer (Born 1910).
Stanley Cortez: American cinematographer and...
Johannes H Been: Brielle archivist, dies at 71.
Theo[dorus J] Thijssen: Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at...
Mogens Klitgaard: Danish Author (Brunkul), dies at 39.
Hideki Tojo: Prime Minister of Japan (1941-44) and 6...
Alfreds Kalnins: Composer, dies at 72.
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