23 December

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The 23rd o December is the 357t day o the year (358t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 8 days bidin.

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Events

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1672: Saturn's muin Rhea
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Aerial view o Managua efter the 1972 yirdquauk
  • 484 Huneric dies an is succeedit bi his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king o the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics are free frae persecutions.
  • 558 Chlothar I is crouned Keeng o the Franks.
  • 583 Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crouned ruler o Palenque.
  • 679 King Dagobert II is murthert while huntin.
  • 1672 Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Saturn's muin Rhea.
  • 1933 A train crash occurs at Lagny-Pomponne, Fraunce, killin 204 fowk.
  • 1948 Seiven Japanese convictit o war crimes bi the Internaitional Militar Tribunal for the Far East are executit at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
  • 1958 The Tokyo Touer opens.
  • 1972 A 6.5 magnitude yirdquauk strikes the Nicaraguan caipital o Managua killin mair nor 10,000.
  • 1979 The Europe-built rocket "Ariane 1" launches.
  • 1990 88% o voters in Slovenie choose unthirldom frae Yugoslavie.
  • 1991 Germany recognises the unthirldom o Croatie.
  • 2003 A splosion at PetroChina Chuandongbei naitural gas field naur Chongqing, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills 234 fowk.
  • 2005 Lech Kaczynski becomes Preses o Poland.
  • 2005 Chad declares isself tae be in a state o war.
  • 2017 A fire at a shoppin mall in Davao, Philippines, kills at least 37 fowk.
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Births

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Akihito
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Dame Carol Ann Duffy
  • 1777 - Tsar Alexander I o Roushie (d. 1825)
  • 1790 - Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
  • 1799 - Karl Bryullov, Roushie penter (d. 1852)
  • 1805 - Joseph Smith, founder o the Mormon Kirk (d. 1844)
  • 1881 - Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spaingie writer (d. 1958)
  • 1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor o West Germany (d. 2015)
  • 1933 - Akihito, Emperor o Japan
  • 1942 - Quentin Bryce, umwhile Govrenor-General o Australie
  • 1943 - Queen Silvia o Swaden
  • 1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor an producer
  • 1945 - Matti Ahde, Finnish politeecian (d. 2019)
  • 1945 - Adly Mansour, Egyptian politeecian
  • 1950 - Vicente del Bosque, Spaingie fitbaa manager
  • 1955 - Dame Carol Ann Duffy, Scots poet an playwricht
  • 1961 - Carol Smillie, Scots telly presenter
  • 1962 - Stefan Hell, German pheesicist
  • 1967 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French sangster an umwhile First Lady o Fraunce
  • 1979 - Kenny Miller, Scots fitbawer
  • 1979 - Frazer Wright, Scots fitbawer
  • 1985 - Harry Judd, Inglis sangster


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Daiths

  • 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime meenister o Japan (b. 1884)
  • 1953 - Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet-Georgie politeecian (b. 1899)
  • 1967 - David McLean, Scots fitbawer (b. 1890)
  • 1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Roushie aircraft designer (b. 1888)
  • 2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime meenister o Indie (b. 1932)
  • 2013 - Mikhail Kalashnikov, Roushie inventor (b. 1919)

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