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Events on December 23

• 1493 Hartmann Schedel publishes his Nuremberg Chronicle, better known as Schedel's World Chronicle, an incunabulum in a German-language edition.
• 1888 The painter Vincent van Gogh injures his right ear at his home in Arles under unexplained circumstances and later hands part of the ear to a prostitute.
• 1913 The Federal Reserve System, known as the Fed, the central banking system of the USA, is established. President Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act, the law passed by the US Congress.
• 1920 At the Kleines Schauspielhaus in Berlin, Arthur Schnitzler's drama La Ronde premieres.
• 1934 In Davos, the world's first chairlift, developed by Swiss mechanical engineer Ernst Constam, is put into operation.
• 1947 The bipolar transistor, invented by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain, is demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
• 1954 The physician Joseph Edward Murray performs the first successful kidney transplant with his team in a five-and-a-half-hour operation at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Identical twin Ronald Herrick donates a kidney to his brother Richard.
• 1971 The film Dirty Harry premieres. Directed by Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood plays the title role of a policeman who also fights crime using dubious methods. The film marks Eastwood's breakthrough in Hollywood.
• 1986 At the Zollverein Colliery in Essen in the Ruhr region, the final shift is worked.
• 1986 After nine days, Richard Glenn Rutan and Jeana Yeager complete the first nonstop flight around the world without refueling or intermediate landings in the Voyager aircraft designed by Burt Rutan.
• 1991 Germany recognizes Croatia as an independent state.
• 2009 Michael Schumacher announces that he will return to Formula 1 as a driver in the 2010 season. He will race for the German Mercedes works team.

Born on December 23

• 1900 Arnold Bode, German curator, artist and university professor
• 1912 Josef Greindl, German singer
• 1916 Dino Risi, Italian film director
• 1921 Heinrich Riethmüller, German musician, composer and dubbing director
• 1933 Akihito, Japanese emperor
• 1950 Vicente del Bosque, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1981 Angelo Kelly, Irish-American musician
• 1981 Jeannine Michaelsen, German actress, television and radio presenter
• 1991 Rebecca Mir, German model and television presenter
• 2002 Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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