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unusual facts about December 23



1872 in art

December 23 - George Catlin - American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796)


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1907 in the United States

December 23 – Stephen Mallory II, United States Senator from Florida from 1897 till 1907.

19367 Pink Floyd

Its previous perihelion passage occurred on December 23, 2004 at 9h00 UT.

Altevir de Araújo

Altevir Silva Filho de Araújo (born December 23, 1955) is a retired sprinter from Brazil, he was a Brazilian champion, but he was best known for winning two gold medals (100 and 200 metres) at the 1979 South American Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Aunese Curreen

Aunese Curreen (born December 23, 1981 in Motootua) is a Samoan middle distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres.

Bunbury Agreement

At the start of the First English Civil War, after a summer of skirmishes in Cheshire, Henry Mainwaring and Mr. Marbury of Marbury Hall for Parliament and Lord Kilmorey and Sir Orlando Bridgeman, son of the Bishop of Chester, for the Royalists agreed to meet on December 23 at Bunbury.

Carlos Ayala

Carlos Ernesto Ayala Amaya (born December 23, 1982 in Soyapango, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Cesar Nerio

César Nerio Toledo (born December 23, 1982 in San Juan Opico, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Chalatenango in the Salvadoran second division

Christophe Bigot

Christophe Bigot (born December 23, 1965) in Neuilly-sur-Seine France, is the current French ambassador to Israel.

Cinema One

On December 23, 2007, 3:30 p.m. ‘Alay ni Da King: a FPJ Special’ was hosted by Cinema One ABS-CBN Channel Head Charo Santos-Concio.

David Mark Cohen

David Mark Cohen (October 2, 1952 – December 23, 1997) was an influential playwriting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, who was affiliated with the Michener Center for Writers.

Diocese of Lindi

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Songea was known as the Diocese of Lindi from December 15, 1927 until December 23, 1931

Ebenezer Erskine Pressly

Ebenezer Erskine Pressly was born on December 23, 1808, in the lower part of Abbeville District, South Carolina.

Eliezer Shulman

Eliezer Shulman (Hebrew אליעזר שולמן; July 11, 1923, Tarutino, Bessarabia, Romania – December 23, 2006, Bat Yam, Israel) was a biblical scholar and historian.

Emmett Leith

Emmett Norman Leith (March 12, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan – December 23, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography.

Felix Bwalya

Felix Bwalya (born October 27, 1970 in Chingola – died December 23, 1997 in Lusaka) was a boxer from Zambia, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

First Battle of Fort Fisher

The First Battle of Fort Fisher, was a siege fought from December 23–27, 1864, was a failed attempt by Union forces to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last major port on the Atlantic Ocean.

Houses of Parliament Act 1837

The Houses of Parliament Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 7) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on December 23, 1837.

HumanLight

Festivus, another December 23 holiday, made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld

Jackie Landry Jackson

Jackie Landry Jackson (May 22, 1941 – December 23, 1997) was a member of The Chantels, the first nationally-successful black female pop music group.

Jacob Call

Call was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative William Prince (December 23, 1824 – March 3, 1825).

Jai Miller

On December 23, Miller was designated for assignment to make room for the prospects acquired in the Gio Gonzalez trade.

Jim Peck

His first hosting job came on the Ron Greenberg-produced hard quiz The Big Showdown, which ran on ABC from December 23, 1974 until July 4, 1975.

Joanna Hayes

Joanna Dove Hayes (born December 23, 1976 in Williamsport) is an American hurdler, who won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

John Ross Woodring

John Ross Woodring (J. Ross Woodring) (1882–1946), a newspaperman, was born in Macy, Indiana, on December 23, 1882.

Josimar Hernández

Josimar Alexis Hernández Abrego (born December 23, 1989 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo.

Kaka Joginder Singh

Kaka Joginder Singh (1918 in Gujranwala - December 23, 1998 in Bareilly) (also known as Dharti Pakad, meaning "one who clings") was a textile owner who contested and lost over 300 elections in India.

Kiki Preston

Kiki Preston, née Alice Gwynne (1898 - December 23, 1946) was an American socialite, a member of the Happy Valley set, and the alleged mother of a child born out of wedlock with Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom.

Leonard B. Stern

Leonard Bernard Stern (December 23, 1923 – June 7, 2011) was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the classic word game Mad Libs.

Marthasville, Georgia

Marthasville was named after Governor Wilson Lumpkin's daughter, Martha; it was officially incorporated on December 23, 1843.

Mary Mary

On December 23, 2010, Mary Mary along with Bebe & Cece Winans featuring the West Angeles Church of God in Christ Choir performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Mieszko Talarczyk

Mieszko Talarczyk (December 23, 1974 in Poland – December 26, 2004 in Thailand) was the lead singer and guitarist of the Swedish grindcore band Nasum, Genocide Superstars, Krigshot and Charles Harfager.

Mountain West Conference

The first game was on November 13, 2009, featuring the Bradley Braves and the BYU Cougars in Provo and it concluded on December 23 with the Wyoming Cowboys visiting the Northern Iowa Panthers in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Plaxico Burress

On December 23, 2008, a search of Burress' New Jersey home by the Totowa, New Jersey police, the New York Police Department, and investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney turned up a 9 mm handgun, a rifle, ammunition and the clothing believed to have been worn by Burress on the night of his accidental shooting.

Quarter Sessions Act 1837

The Quarter Sessions Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 4) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on December 23, 1837.

Rene La Montagne

(December 23, 1882 - ?) was an American polo player who in 1914 won the International Polo Cup.

Richmond Theatre fire

The benefit originally had been scheduled for December 23, but was postponed due to the death of Mrs. Poe, Placide's own illness, and foul weather.

Robert Moorman

Great-grandfather of Thomas Samuel Moorman (July 11, 1910 – December 23, 1997) – Lt. Gen USAF, Commandant United States Air Force Academy 1965 - 1970

Ross Lee Finney

-- III? --> (December 23, 1906–February 4, 1997) was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan.

Ruth Ann Steinhagen

Ruth Ann Steinhagen (December 23, 1929 – December 29, 2012) was an American woman who shot and nearly killed Eddie Waitkus, star first baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies, on June 14, 1949 in one of the first instances of what later became known as stalker crimes.

Settela Steinbach

Anna Maria (Settela) Steinbach (December 23, 1934, Buchten – July 31, 1944) was a Dutch girl who was gassed in Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

Shahurain Abu Samah

Shahurain Abu Samah (born on December 23, 1986 in Kajang, Selangor) is a Malaysian footballer who is currently a midfielder/right winger for Felda United F.C..

Shelley Malil

Shelley Mathew Malil (born in Kerala, India; December 23, 1964) is an Indian-born American actor.

South-East Asian theatre of World War II

India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell the Commander-in-Chief (CinC) of the Army of India and the Far East Command, first under Air Chief Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham and then from December 23, 1941 commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall.

The Alcoa Hour

One of the series' memorable episodes was the December 23, 1956, telecast of The Stingiest Man in Town, a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring Basil Rathbone as Scrooge and Martyn Green as Bob Cratchit.

The Bannen Way

The show officially premiered on Sony Pictures Entertainment owned Crackle on January 6, 2010, but the first three episodes began streaming on December 23, 2009 to qualify for the Streamy Awards.

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan

After elections that resulted in a change of presidents in 2008, Taipei accepted the pandas, and they arrived in Taiwan on December 23, 2008.

Víctor Hugo Arévalo Jordán

Víctor Hugo Arévalo Jordán (born December 23, 1946 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian writer and noted university professor.

William McChesney Martin

In 1913, Martin's father was summoned by President Woodrow Wilson and Senator Carter Glass to help write the Federal Reserve Act that would establish the Federal Reserve System on December 23 that same year.