* Astronomy

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RE: December 23rd

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The Roman festival of Larentalia was held on December 23
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46901479/festival-of-larentalia/

Tom Bawcöck's Eve is a festival held on the 23rd of December in Mousehole, Cornwall, UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bawcöck's_Eve

The Night of the Radishes (Spanish: Noche de rábanos) is celebrated every year on December 23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Radishes

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The topping out ceremony of World Trade Center North Tower took place on December 23, 1970
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46901480/world-trade-centre/

The 1854 Ansei-Tokai earthquake was the first of the Ansei Great Earthquakes (1854-1855).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Ansei-T%C5%8Dkai_earthquake

The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake occurred on Saturday, December 23, 1972 near Managua,
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52009949/1972-nicaragua-earthquake/

Murara was a small, short-lived, cinder cone on the flank of Mount Nyamuragira, that began erupting on December 23, 1976.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murara

The first coelacanth was discovered on December 23, 1938
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46882746/coelacanth/

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1986: The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40085683/rutan-model-76-voyager/

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The COBE satellite was decommissioned by NASA on December 23, 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Background_Explorer

On 23 December 1998 the NEAR spacecraft flew within 3824 km of asteroid (433) Eros
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3153115/near-433-eros/

Meridian 5 (Russian: -5) was a communications satellite launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency which was lost in a launch failure in December 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_5

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Juan, an Argentinan tufted capuchin, was launched aboard a Rigel 04 rocket on December 23, 1969
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space#Argentina

Nail Sharipovich Sattarov (23 December 1941 - 15 April 2014) was a Russian test pilot cosmonaut
http://weebau.com/astros_cis/sattarov_nail.htm

Karol Joseph Bobko (born December 23, 1937) is a former USAF and NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_J._Bobko

Nikolai Alekseevich Rynin (23 December 1887 - 28 July 1942) was a Russian aerospace researcher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Rynin

Wilhelm Hisinger (December 23, 1766 - June 28, 1852) was a Swedish physicist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Hisinger

Harold Masursky (December 23, 1922 - August 24, 1990) was an American geologist and astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Masursky

Roger M Bonnet (1937-) is a French astronomer.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger-Maurice_Bonnet

Karl (or Carl) Richard Lepsius (23 December 1810 - 10 July 1884) was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46901476/karl-richard-lepsius-1810-1884/

Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 - 4 March 1832) was a French decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46901477/jean-franois-champollion-1790-1832/

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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas#Literary_history

The first audio radio transmission was on December 23, 1900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio#Fessenden

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NGC 1809 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56020063/ngc-1809/

NGC 1951 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56019986/ngc-1951/

NGC 2127 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56019933/ngc-2127/

NGC 2187 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56019880/ngc-2187/

NGC 2248 was discovered by Edward Cooper on the 23rd December 1853.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56019798/ngc-2248/

NGC 2442 was discovered by John Herschel on December 23, 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t27392636/ngc-2442/

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Rhea the second-largest moon of Saturn was discovered in 1672 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3092944/rhea-spot/

The earliest definite sighting of Uranus was in 1690 when John Flamsteed observed and catalogued it as 34 Tauri.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uranus_1690_34_tauri.png

Images of Pluto were found by G. Stromberg on two plates taken by him with the 10-inch Cooke triplet in December 1925.
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/

Asteroid 264 Libussa was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on December 22, 1886 in Clinton, New York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/264_Libussa

The planets Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus and Mercury on 23 December 9082 BC were all positioned within 15.6 degrees of the sky.

On 23rd December 1821, Jupiter-Saturn conjunction (1°22'separated) in Pisces
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blobrana/11502542654/

BT Monocerotis (Nova Monocerotis 1939) was discovered on a spectral plate by Fred Whipple on December 23, 1939.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Monocerotis

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Meteorites

The Atarra (L4) meteorite fell in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the 23rd December, 1920.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46901499/atarra-meteorite/

The El Tigre (L6) meteorite fell in Michoacan, Mexico, on the 23rd December, 1993.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56019737/el-tigre-meteorite/