What Happened on December 23
Publish date: 2024-09-24
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- 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
- 1920 Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland
- 1954 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
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Dec 23 in Film & TV
- 1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
- 1951 National Football League Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns, 24-17; first coast-to-coast televised NFL title game
Dec 23 in Music
- 1893 Opera "Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck and his sister Adelheid Wette premieres in Weimar, conducted by Richard Strauss
Dec 23 in Sport
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Four women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
Fun Fact About December 23
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
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