December 23
1783 - George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.
1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the District of Columbia.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the night before Christmas"), was first published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the act which created the Federal Reserve System.
1947 - The transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley.
1948 - Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese World War II leaders were executed.
1954 - The first successful human kidney transplant took place at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team removed a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick and implanted it in Herrick’s twin brother, Richard.
1968 - Eighty-two crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.
1972 - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Nicaragua; the disaster claimed some 5,000 lives.
1986 - Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling aboard the experimental airplane Voyager.
1997 - A federal jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, declining to find him guilty of murder. (Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)
2003 - A jury in Chesapeake, Virginia, sentenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison, sparing him the death penalty.
2016 - The United States allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation” of international law; the decision to abstain from the council’s 14-0 vote was one of the biggest American rebukes of its longstanding ally in recent memory.
2022 - Winter weather blanketed the U.S. as a massive storm sent temperatures crashing and created whiteout conditions. More than 200 million people — about 60% of the U.S. population — were under some form of weather advisory or warning.
Birthdays
25 - Tori Keeth (actress)
30 - Caleb Foote (actor)
31 - Spencer Daniels (actor)
33 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (actress)
36 - Elvy Yost (actress)
44 - Holly Madison (model)
45 - Estella Warren (actress)
48 - Kirby Smart (football coach)
59 - Eddie Vedder (singer)
60 - Terry Weeks (singer)
65 - Joan Severance (actress)
77 - Susan Lucci (actress)
80 - Harry Shearer (actor/comedian)
92 - Ronnie Schell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 23
1951 - The NFL Championship Game was televised for the first time, with the Los Angeles Rams defeating the Cleveland Browns 24-17.
1972 - The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second play that was dubbed the "Immaculate Reception." Pittsburgh's Franco Harris caught a deflected pass and ran it in for the winning touchdown.
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll retired after 23 seasons and four Super Bowl victories.
1997 - Jari Kurri (Colorado Avalanche) became the 8th NHL player to score 600 goals.
1997 - Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson becomes the quickest in NBA history to reach 500 career victories (682 games).
1783 - George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.
1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the District of Columbia.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the night before Christmas"), was first published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the act which created the Federal Reserve System.
1947 - The transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley.
1948 - Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese World War II leaders were executed.
1954 - The first successful human kidney transplant took place at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team removed a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick and implanted it in Herrick’s twin brother, Richard.
1968 - Eighty-two crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.
1972 - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Nicaragua; the disaster claimed some 5,000 lives.
1986 - Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling aboard the experimental airplane Voyager.
1997 - A federal jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, declining to find him guilty of murder. (Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)
2003 - A jury in Chesapeake, Virginia, sentenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison, sparing him the death penalty.
2016 - The United States allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation” of international law; the decision to abstain from the council’s 14-0 vote was one of the biggest American rebukes of its longstanding ally in recent memory.
2022 - Winter weather blanketed the U.S. as a massive storm sent temperatures crashing and created whiteout conditions. More than 200 million people — about 60% of the U.S. population — were under some form of weather advisory or warning.
Birthdays
25 - Tori Keeth (actress)
30 - Caleb Foote (actor)
31 - Spencer Daniels (actor)
33 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (actress)
36 - Elvy Yost (actress)
44 - Holly Madison (model)
45 - Estella Warren (actress)
48 - Kirby Smart (football coach)
59 - Eddie Vedder (singer)
60 - Terry Weeks (singer)
65 - Joan Severance (actress)
77 - Susan Lucci (actress)
80 - Harry Shearer (actor/comedian)
92 - Ronnie Schell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 23
1951 - The NFL Championship Game was televised for the first time, with the Los Angeles Rams defeating the Cleveland Browns 24-17.
1972 - The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second play that was dubbed the "Immaculate Reception." Pittsburgh's Franco Harris caught a deflected pass and ran it in for the winning touchdown.
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll retired after 23 seasons and four Super Bowl victories.
1997 - Jari Kurri (Colorado Avalanche) became the 8th NHL player to score 600 goals.
1997 - Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson becomes the quickest in NBA history to reach 500 career victories (682 games).
