23 December

The 23rd o December is the 357t day o the year (358t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 8 days bidin.

 Events 
 484 – Huneric dies an is succeedit bi his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king o the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics are free frae persecutions.
 558 – Chlothar I is crouned Keeng o the Franks.
 583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crouned ruler o Palenque.
 679 – King Dagobert II is murthert while huntin.
1672 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Saturn's muin Rhea.
1933 – A train crash occurs at Lagny-Pomponne, Fraunce, killin 204 fowk.
1948 – Seiven Japanese convictit o war crimes bi the Internaitional Militar Tribunal for the Far East are executit at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
1958 – The Tokyo Touer opens.
1972 – A 6.5 magnitude yirdquauk strikes the Nicaraguan caipital o Managua killin mair nor 10,000.
1979 – The Europe-built rocket "Ariane 1" launches.
1990 – 88% o voters in Slovenie choose unthirldom frae Yugoslavie.
1991 – Germany recognises the unthirldom o Croatie.
2003 – A splosion at PetroChina Chuandongbei naitural gas field naur Chongqing, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills 234 fowk.
2005 – Lech Kaczynski becomes Preses o Poland.
2005 – Chad declares isself tae be in a state o war.
2017 – A fire at a shoppin mall in Davao, Philippines, kills at least 37 fowk.

 Births 
 1777 - Tsar Alexander I o Roushie (d. 1825)
 1790 - Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
 1799 - Karl Bryullov, Roushie penter (d. 1852)
 1805 - Joseph Smith, founder o the Mormon Kirk (d. 1844)
 1881 - Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spaingie writer (d. 1958)
 1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor o West Germany (d. 2015)
 1933 - Akihito, Emperor o Japan
 1942 - Quentin Bryce, umwhile Govrenor-General o Australie
 1943 - Queen Silvia o Swaden
 1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor an producer
 1945 - Matti Ahde, Finnish politeecian (d. 2019)
 1945 - Adly Mansour, Egyptian politeecian
 1950 - Vicente del Bosque, Spaingie fitbaa manager
 1955 - Dame Carol Ann Duffy, Scots poet an playwricht
 1961 - Carol Smillie, Scots telly presenter
 1962 - Stefan Hell, German pheesicist
 1967 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French sangster an umwhile First Lady o Fraunce
 1979 - Kenny Miller, Scots fitbawer
 1979 - Frazer Wright, Scots fitbawer
 1985 - Harry Judd, Inglis sangster

 Daiths 
 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime meenister o Japan (b. 1884)
 1953 - Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet-Georgie politeecian (b. 1899)
 1967 - David McLean, Scots fitbawer (b. 1890)
 1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Roushie aircraft designer (b. 1888)
 2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime meenister o Indie (b. 1932)
 2013 - Mikhail Kalashnikov, Roushie inventor (b. 1919)

 Halidays 
 Birthday o Emperor Akihito (Japan)
 St. Thorlak's Day (Iceland)
 Kisan Diwas (Uttar Pradesh)
 Victory Day (Egyp)
 Children's Day (Sudan an Sooth Sudan)
 HumanLicht (Humanism)
 Festivus

Category:Days o the year