Hisdates•ComPage 7: Historical Events In December - 23
Monday, 03 November 2025
1973 "The Young and the Restless" premiers on TV on December - 23. 
1973 On December - 23 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1973 On December - 23 arthur Richardson, cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies
1975 On this day in history congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1975 On December - 23 richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
1976 On December - 23 frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies
1982 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 62 on December - 23.
1983 Journal Science publishes first report on nuclear winter on December - 23.
1985 On December - 23 james Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
1986 On this day in history voyager completes global flight, Rutan and Yeager make around-the-world flight without refueling
1987 On December - 23 lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
1989 Josef Alexander, composer, dies at 82 on December - 23.
1990 On December - 23 slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
1990 Frank King, cricketer (WI fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies on this day in history.
1991 On this day in history new York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1991 On this day in history byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73
1992 On December - 23 cyril Walters, cricketer (11 Tests for England, 784 runs), dies
1993 Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92 on this day in history.
1994 On December - 23 charles Shirley, jazz arranger, dies at 74
1995 David Land, impressario, dies at 77 on December - 23.
1996 Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85 on December - 23.
1997 On this day in history austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90
2005 On December - 23 azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
2005 Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adre, which left about 10 people dead on December - 23.
2005 On this day in history lech Kaczynski is sworn in as the President of Poland in Warsaw, Poland.
2005 Trial of Tali Fahima ends in a plea bargain on December - 23.
2005 On December - 23 u.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following Iraqi elections.
2007 A general election is held in Thailand. The People's Power Party, which is associated with former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra, wins a majority of seats in the parliament on this day in history.
2007 A grand conjunction in which the solar system will align with the galactic center on December - 23.
2007 On this day in history presidential election in Uzbekistan.
2012 On this day in history 200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria
2019 On this day in history 28 people are killed and 13 others injured after a bus plunges into a ravine on a winding road in South Sumatra.December 24 - Thousands of Muslims protest the December 20 burning of four mosques in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.