December 23 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Snowboard Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇸🇩 Sudan – Children’s Day.
🇪🇬 Egypt – Victory (Liberation of Port Said) Day.
🇸🇪 Sweden – Queen Silvia’s Birthday.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Radish Day.
🇮🇳 India – Farmers’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 484 – After the death of Gunerix, Guntamund became king of the Vandals.
– 558 – Chlothar I completed the unification of the Frankish kingdom under his rule.
– 962 – Siege of Aleppo.
– 1558 – English traveler, trade agent and diplomat Anthony Jenkinson arrived in Bukhara.
– 1672 – Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered another moon of Saturn – Rhea.
– 1876 – The first constitution of the Ottoman Empire was adopted.
– 1888 – Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear.
– 1900 – Reginald Fessenden made the world’s first sound broadcast.
– 1904 – The first Lithuanian-language newspaper, “Vilnius Jinios”, was published in Vilnius.
– 1913 – The Federal Reserve System was created in the USA from several large banks.
– 1938 – A coelacanth fish was brought to the London Museum.
– 1953 – In the USSR, L. P. Beria, V. N. Merkulov, B. Z. Kobulov, S. A. Goglidze, P. Ya. Meshik, V. G. Dekanozov and L. E. Vlodzimirsky were shot.
– 1947 – The official presentation of the transistor was held in America. This day is considered the day of the invention of the transistor.
– 1972 – The Managua earthquake.
– 1979 – The Afghan War: Soviet troops occupied Kabul.
– 1990 – A referendum on the secession of Slovenia from Yugoslavia. 95% of those who participated agreed.
– 1991 – The Swiss Confederation recognized the sovereignty of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1993 – The International Babur Foundation was established.
– 1994 – The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted a resolution “On measures to improve the activities of republican museums”.
– 1994 – The decision on the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia (Gagauz-Yeri) within the Republic of Moldova was officially announced.
– 2007 – The monarchy was abolished in Nepal.
– 2007 – Islam Karimov was elected President of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the third time for a 7-year term.
– 2008 – Military coup in Guinea.
– 2009 – An explosion occurred at the Yestyuninskaya mine in Nizhny Tagil, killing 9 people.
