12-23-2005, 06:53 AM
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December 23rd
1790 ~ Birthday of Jean François Champollion, Egyptologist. He deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
1823 ~ A Visit From St. Nicholas, by Clement Clarke Moore, was first published.
1834 ~ Death of Thomas Malthus, Demographer and Economist.
1888 ~ Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear.
1939 ~ Death of Anthony Fokker, aircraft manufacturer.
1947 ~ The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1953 ~ Death of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader.
1956 ~ British and French forces withdrawn from Suez, Egypt.
1979 ~ Soviet military occupies Kabul, Afghanistan.
Feastdays & Holidays
Fans of Seinfeld - Festivus (for the restofus) held.
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