December 23: The Emperor's Birthday in Japan; Festivus
Vincent van Gogh
- 962 – Byzantine–Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo.
- 1823 – A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, was first published anonymously. Authorship was later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore.
- 1888 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (pictured) stalked his friend French painter Paul Gauguin with a razor, and then afterwards cut off the lower part of his own left ear and gave it to a prostitute.
- 1957 – Ian Craig of Australia became the youngest Test cricket captain in history.
- 1990 – About 88% of the population in Slovenia voted to secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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