23 December

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

Events

1672: Saturn's muin Rhea

Aerial view o Managua efter the 1972 yirdquauk

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.