December 23rd

The December 23rd is the 357e Jour of the Année (358e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 8 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 400 : In their refuge beyond the the Danube, after their escape of Constantinople, Sheathed and its Goths is attacked by the Huns, which massacre them with what remained of their army. Its head is sent by the chief Hun Uldin like gift to Constantinople.
  • 800: In front of the joined together Council with Rome, in the basilica of the Vatican, the Pope Leon III, at the request of Charlemagne, pronounces an oath purgatory, swearing that it has “ neither perpetrated, nor ordered the criminal things and scélérates that one reproaches him ”. In addition, the Western Empire is restored by the council.
  • 1144 : Catch of the town of Édesse by Nour el-DIN of Mosul
  • 1299: The Pope Boniface VIII confers the archbishop's palace of Bordeaux on Bertrand de Got, which however seemed to be entered within the church only for the possibilities of career and incomes that it could offer.
  • 1383 : Pierre Aycelin de Montaigut, bishop-duke of Laon since 1370 is created Cardinal, at the time of a Consistoire by the Antipape Clément VII.
  • 1442 : Victoire in Hungary of Janos Hunyadi on the Turks with Jalocrats.
  • 1482 : At the end of the treated of Arras, the Burgundy and the Picardy are attached to the royal Domaine. Artois constitutes the dowry of Marguerite of Burgundy, which is promised with the dolphin; the remainder returns to Philippe the Beautiful, wire of Maximilien and Marie.
  • 1588 : Assassination, at the time of a meeting of the General states to the Castle of Blois of the Duke of Own way, Henri, duke of Own way, chief of the holy League, on order of the King de France Henri III.
  • 1593 : Henri IV gives up with the governor of Saumur a tenth on the whole of the tolls taken on the traffic of the the Loire.
  • 1714 : The Persian ambassador of Mehmet Rıza Beğ and its crew, whose Hagopdjan de Deritchan which will become the following year consul of Perse to Marseilles, begins the voyage towards Paris, accompanied by Mr. Pidou de Saint-Olon, gentleman delegated by the king, and escorted by a detachment of cavalry of the Queen and guards royal.
  • 1728 : The Prussia is combined with the Austria and recognizes the Pragmatic Sanction.
  • 1751 : With Versailles, Louis XV suspends the lifting of the new tax, twentieth, on the goods belonging to the clergy.
  • 1769 : in France, the abbot Terray is named controller of Finances.
  • 1793 : The general Kléber inflicts with Savenay a final defeat with the Vendean armies. End of the Transfered of Galerne.
  • 1813 : Entered of the Austrian in Alsace, within the framework of the war of the Sixth coalition.
  • 1832 : The French Army occupies Antwerp, forcing the Holland to recognize the independence of the Belgium.
  • 1847 : Rendering of the emir Abd El-Kader with the General Lamoricière. (Site devoted to the General)
  • 1861: The Turkish sultan accepts the meeting of the Moldavie and the Valachie, which form the Romania.
  • 1865 : The France, the Italy, the Swiss and the Belgium found the Latin Monetary Union , deciding to lower the title of the silver coins from 0,9 to 0,835.
  • 1871: In France, the Count Albert de Mun (1841 - 1914) founds the working catholic circles .
  • 1876 : With Istanbul, the sultan Abdul Hamid II inaugurates his reign by reinstating Midhat Pasha in his station of top dog and while promulgating, this day the first Othoman Constitution, which institutes a bicameral parliamentary system.
  • 1888 : The painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts the end of the ear after an argument with Paul Gauguin.
  • 1900 : Close to Washington, the Canadian Reginald Aubrey Fessenden makes a success of the first transmission of voice per wireless telegraphy, collected by an assistant of one kilometer from there.

1901 to 2000

  • 1909 : Albert Ier becomes king of the Belgians after the death, on December 17th of his/her uncle Léopold II.
  • 1912 : Inauguration in Egypt of the channel of the stopping of Aswan.
  • 1913 : Creation of the Federal fund of the United States ( Federal The Reserve ).
  • 1920:
  • 1925 : With Hedjaz: Without a shot, Abd Al-Aziz Ben Abd Al-Rahman Al Saoud, emir of the Nejd and Imam of the Wahhabites, takes Djeddah after having conquered in 1924 the Holy City of Médine, then Mecque cradle of the prophet.
  • 1929 : A Explosion kills three workmen of the rotogravure to the daily newspaper the Press .
  • 1933 : With Berlin - Fire of the Reichstag: one obtains the consents (forced) of a suspect Marinus Van der Lubbe, which will be condemned to died this day. An international survey concludes that the persons in charge of the fire are Nazis. It will be carried out the January 10th 1934.
  • 1936 : the Canadian Norman Bethune inaugurates the first mobile unit of blood Transfusion, during the war of Spain.
  • 1940 : With Paris, Jacques Bonsergent is the first French shot in the capital .
  • 1947 : The Bell laboratories present the Transistor.
  • 1952 : End of the government of Antoine Pinay.
  • 1953 :
    • Rene Coty is elected president of the French Republic after 13 turns of votes of the Parliament.
    • Execution of Lavrenti Beria, Soviet former minister for the Interior. (° March 29th 1899)
  • 1963: with four hundred kilometers of Gibraltar, an explosion aboard Greek steamer Lakonia makes a hundred and twenty-eight dead.
  • 1971 : Release of Governed Debray in Bolivia. After four years of detention, it is expelled of Bolivia.
  • 1972 :
    • a seism destroyed Managua, capital of the Nicaragua, and makes at least 10.000 dead in the country.
    • the 16 survivors of the air Crash in the Andes of the October 13rd are saved after 73 days, having practiced the Anthropophagie to survive.
  • 1973 : With Teheran, OPEC announces that six countries of the Golfe will double their price of the Pétrole gross.
  • 1974 : First flight of the Mirage F1
  • 1975: The American congress officializes the Metric system but will never use it.
  • 1986 :
    • Return to Moscow of Andrei Sakharov after the exile of Gorki. (authorization of the Russian authorities of the December 18th 1986)
    • Fine of the voyage for To travel, first plane to buckle the turn of our planet without stopover nor supply.
  • 1987 : First changing supplements of a crew on orbit, after the mooring at the station Mir of the spaceship Soyuz TM-4 with three cosmonauts on board.
  • 1988 :
    • Fusion in Europe of the groups Matra (France), GEC (the United Kingdom), DASA/Daimler-Chrysler aerospace (Germany) and Finmeccanica (Italy).
    • With the Peru, the supreme decree Nº 023-98-AG. create the reserved Zone - one thus calls areas which, gathering the conditions to be regarded as protected natural Zones , ask for the realization of complementary studies in order to determine, amongst other things, the extent and the category which will correspond to each one - of the Valley of the Río Rímac , the river which feeds out of water the Peruvian capital.
  • 1990 : Independence of the Slovenia by democratic vote.
  • 1991 : The Germany recognizes the independence of the Slovenia and the Croatia.
  • 1995 : 16 followers (whose 3 children) of the sect “of the Solar Temple” “commits suicide”.
  • 1996 : The Wochenpost, very popular newspaper in ex-GDR, cease to appear; he will not have survived very a long time the German Réunification.
  • 1997 : The financial crisis continues in Asia: the Stock Exchange of Seoul records the strongest fall of its history. The following day, the the IMF grants to the South Korea an emergency loan of 10 billion dollars.
  • 1998 :
  • 1999 : The Ivory Coast knows a military coup d'etat.
  • 2000 :
    • a plane DC-10 of Hawaiian Airline is crushed with PAPEETE-Faaa, French Polynésie and completes its race in the lagoon, making, fortunately, only one wounded out of the 152 passengers and team members.
    • the partisans of the new president Vojislav Kostunica gain the legislative ones, in Serbia.

2001 and +

  • 2003 :
      • a mysterious appearance takes place with the castle of short Hampton. A surveillance camera films a strange silhouette to close the doors of the castle which had opened all alone. According to the rumor, it would be about the king Henri VIII.
    • Of toxic smoke escaping from a defective well of a layer of Gaz in the south-west of the China makes nearly 200 dead.
    • Ivo Sanader goes well to the huitèsme preimer Minister for the Croatia.
  • 2004 : Elections in the West Bank for the first time since 28 years: 150.000 Palestinians have to vote for the municipal elections, poll considered as a preparation with the presidential election of the next January 9th.
  • 2005 : Lech Kaczynski is elected President of the Republic of the Poland.
  • 2008 : Day of the film catastrophe of M6: December 23rd, 2008: the day or France stopped.
  • 2012 : Beginning of the 5th world according to the Maya calendar . (End of the 4th on December 21st).

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Egypt: Celebrates of the Victoire;
  • Japan: Tennô Tanjôbi (Birthday of the emperor)

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Holy Évariste and his/her nine companions
  • Dagobert {{II}}, king d' Austrasie

Catholic saints of the day

  • Holy Armand (or Hartmann)

References

December 23rd is a song of the group Beau Dommage.

Saying of the day

“Hard and late Winter Makes the apple tree productive. ”

See too

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