December 23<\/p>\n
1688 \u2013 During the ‘Glorious Revolution’, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.<\/p>\n
1783 \u2013 After the end the War of Independence, and his victory\/farewell dinner in New York, General George Washington resigns as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis.<\/p>\n
1913 \u2013 The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.<\/p>\n
1936 \u2013 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.<\/p>\n
1941 \u2013 After 15 days of fighting, the U.S. garrison on Wake Island is finally forced to surrender to the Japanese Army<\/p>\n
1947 \u2013 The properties of the transistor are first demonstrated by its inventors at Bell Laboratories.<\/p>\n
1948 \u2013 Convicted of war crimes during World War 2 by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East; Akira Mut\u014d, Hideki Tojo, Seishir\u014d Itagaki, Heitar\u014d Kimura, Iwane Matsui, Kenji Doihara and K\u014dki Hirota are executed by hanging at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n
1954 \u2013 The first successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray between the identical twins, Ronald and Richard Herrick, at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston.<\/p>\n
1968 \u2013 The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo<\/em> are released after 11 months of captivity in North Korea.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 The North Tower (Tower 1) of the World Trade Center in Manhattan is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world at the time.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 Invading Soviet Union forces occupy the Afghanistan capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, piloting Voyager<\/em>, land at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first to fly an aircraft non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, inventor of the Soviet AK-47 rifle, dies, age 94, in hospital at the Udmurtian medical facility in Izhevsk, Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 23 1688 \u2013 During the ‘Glorious Revolution’, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary. 1783 \u2013 After the end the War of Independence, and his victory\/farewell dinner in New York, General George Washington resigns as Commander … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63190"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98748,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190\/revisions\/98748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}