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Subject: Today In History Dec 23
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:46:36 EST
Dec 23, 1620 - Construction of Plymouth Colony begins
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Dec 23, 1823 - A Visit From St. Nicholas, attributed to Clement Clarke
Moore, is first published
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Dec 23, 1537 - Happy Birthday John III of Sweden, King of Sweden
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Dec 23, 1790 - Happy Birthday Jean François Champollion, egyptologist,
deciphered the Rosetta Stone
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Dec 23, 1805 -Happy Birthday Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Mormonism and
the Latter Day Saint movement
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Dec 23, 1750 Happy Birthday Frederik Augustus I the Righteous, king of
Saxony
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Dec 23, 1777 Happy Birthday Aleksandr I P Romanov Tsar of Russia
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Dec 23, 1845 Happy Birthday Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle doctor (founder
of Notre Dame Hospital Montréal)
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Dec 23, 558 Childebert King of France , dies at about 62
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Dec 23, 679 Dagobert II King of Austrasia , murdered
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Dec 23, 918 Conrad I East Frankish/German King , dies
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Dec 23, 1652 John Cotton Massachusetts Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68
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Dec 23, 1620 French Huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
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Dec 23, 1688 English king Jacob II flees to France
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Dec 23, 1751 France sets plan to tax clergymen
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Dec 23, 1779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
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Dec 23, 1788 Maryland votes to cede a 10 square mile area for District of
Columbia
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Dec 23, 1823 "Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (New
York) Sentinel
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Dec 23, 1812 - Happy Birthday Samuel Smiles
writer: Thrift: “A place for everything and everything in its place.”
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Dec 23, 1822 Happy Birthday Wilhelm Sebastian
Inventor, German, pioneer inventor and builder of submarines
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Dec 23, 1617, The English Crown institutes a penal colony in Virginia.
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Dec 23, 1690, John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its
undiscovered.
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