December 23
1783 - George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.
1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile tract of land for the District of Columbia.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the Night Before Christmas"), written by either Clement C. Moore or Maj. Henry Livingston Jr., was published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the Federal Reserve System.
1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
1947 - The transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley.
1948 - Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war 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 - 82 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, claiming more than 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.
2021 - Kim Potter, a white suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser, was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a young Black man, Daunte Wright, during a traffic stop. (Potter would be sentenced to two years in prison.)
Birthdays
24 - Tori Keeth (actress)
29 - Caleb Foote (actor)
30 - Spencer Daniels (actor)
32 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (actress)
34 - Devin Lytle (actress)
35 - Elvy Yost (actress)
43 - Holly Madison (model/reality star)
44 - Estella Warren (actress)
55 - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (model/former first lady of France)
58 - Eddie Vedder (singer)
59 - Terry Weeks (singer)
59 - Jim Harbaugh (football coach)
64 - Joan Severance (actress)
76 - Susan Lucci (actress)
79 - Harry Shearer (actor/comedian)
86 - Frederic Forrest (actor)
91 - Ronnie Schell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 23
1951 - The NFL Championship Game was televised nationally for the first time as the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cleveland Browns 24-17.
1972 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second play that was dubbed the "Immaculate Reception" when Pittsburgh's Franco Harris caught a deflected pass and ran it in as time expired for the game-winning touchdown.
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll retired after 23 seasons; he was the first head coach in NFL history to have won four Super Bowls.
1997 - Jari Kurri (Colorado Avalanche) became the 8th NHL player to score 600 goals.
1997 - Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson becomes the quickest to reach 500 victories in NBA history (682 games).
1783 - George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.
1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile tract of land for the District of Columbia.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the Night Before Christmas"), written by either Clement C. Moore or Maj. Henry Livingston Jr., was published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the Federal Reserve System.
1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
1947 - The transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley.
1948 - Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war 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 - 82 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, claiming more than 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.
2021 - Kim Potter, a white suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser, was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a young Black man, Daunte Wright, during a traffic stop. (Potter would be sentenced to two years in prison.)
Birthdays
24 - Tori Keeth (actress)
29 - Caleb Foote (actor)
30 - Spencer Daniels (actor)
32 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (actress)
34 - Devin Lytle (actress)
35 - Elvy Yost (actress)
43 - Holly Madison (model/reality star)
44 - Estella Warren (actress)
55 - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (model/former first lady of France)
58 - Eddie Vedder (singer)
59 - Terry Weeks (singer)
59 - Jim Harbaugh (football coach)
64 - Joan Severance (actress)
76 - Susan Lucci (actress)
79 - Harry Shearer (actor/comedian)
86 - Frederic Forrest (actor)
91 - Ronnie Schell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 23
1951 - The NFL Championship Game was televised nationally for the first time as the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cleveland Browns 24-17.
1972 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second play that was dubbed the "Immaculate Reception" when Pittsburgh's Franco Harris caught a deflected pass and ran it in as time expired for the game-winning touchdown.
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll retired after 23 seasons; he was the first head coach in NFL history to have won four Super Bowls.
1997 - Jari Kurri (Colorado Avalanche) became the 8th NHL player to score 600 goals.
1997 - Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson becomes the quickest to reach 500 victories in NBA history (682 games).
