A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 23rd!
| 1783 | George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Va. |
| 1788 | Maryland passed an act to cede a parcel of land for the seat of the national government, part of which later became the District of Columbia. |
| 1823 | The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement C. Moore was first published, in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel. |
| 1861 | Lord Lyons, The British minister to America presents a formal complaint to secretary of state, William Seward, regarding the Trent affair.  |
| 1900 | The Federal Party, which recognizes American sovereignty, is formed in the Philippines. |
| 1919 | Great Britain institutes a new constitution for India. |
| 1921 | President Warren G. Harding frees Socialist Eugene Debs and 23 other political prisoners. |
| 1933 | Pope Pius XI condemns the Nazi sterilization program. |
| 1937 | London warns Rome to stop anti-British propaganda in Palestine. |
| 1939 | The first Canadian troops arrive in Britain. |
| 1940 | Chiang Kai-shek dissolves all Communist associations in China.  |
| 1941 | American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese during World War II. |
| 1944 | General Dwight D. Eisenhower confirms the death sentence of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American shot for desertion since the Civil War. |
| 1947 | President Harry S Truman grants a pardon to 1,523 who had evaded the World War II draft. |
| 1948 | Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. |
| 1950 | General Walton H. Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, is killed in a jeep accident. Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgeway is named his successor. |
| 1967 | U.S. Navy SEALs are ambushed during an operation southeast of Saigon. |
| 1972 | The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second touchdown catch by Franco Harris that was dubbed the “immaculate reception.” |
| 1974 | The B-1 bomber makes its first successful test flight. |
| 1986 | The Voyager completes the first nonstop flight around the globe on one load of fuel. The experimental aircraft, piloted Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after nine days and four minutes in the sky. |
| 1995 | A fire in Dabwali, India, killed 540 people, including 170 children, during a year-end party being held near the children’s school. |
| 1997 | A federal jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.  |
| 2003 | The government announced the first suspected case of mad cow disease in United States. |
| 2003 | A jury in Chesapeake, Va., sentenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison, sparing him the death penalty. |
| 2004 | Former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded guilty to a corruption charge. (He served 10 months in prison.) |
| 2009 | The parents who pulled the “balloon boy” hoax in hopes of landing a reality TV show, were sentenced to jail by a judge in Fort Collins, Colo.  |
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