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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_23" title="December 23">December 23</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Radishes" title="Night of the Radishes">Night of the Radishes</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca_City" title="Oaxaca City">Oaxaca City</a>, Mexico; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus" title="Festivus">Festivus</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: American troops, overwhelmed by British reinforcements, retreated from the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iron_Works_Hill" title="Battle of Iron Works Hill">Battle of Iron Works Hill</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888" title="1888">1888</a> – During a bout of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder" title="Mental disorder">mental illness</a>, Dutch painter <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a></b> severed part of his left ear and gave it to a woman in a brothel in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a>, France.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916" title="1916">1916</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I" title="Allies of World War I">Allied</a> forces gained a strategic victory at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Magdhaba" title="Battle of Magdhaba">Battle of Magdhaba</a></b> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai Peninsula</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957" title="1957">1957</a> – Leading the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia national cricket team</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Craig" title="Ian Craig">Ian Craig</a></b> became the youngest-ever <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test cricket</a> captain at the time.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Guinea_Armed_Forces" title="Republic of Guinea Armed Forces">Guinean military</a> engineered <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2008 Guinean coup d'état">a coup d'état</a></b>, announcing that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Wrangel" title="Carl Gustaf Wrangel">Carl Gustaf Wrangel</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1613); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dost_Mohammad_Khan" title="Dost Mohammad Khan">Dost Mohammad Khan</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1793); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Bruni" title="Carla Bruni">Carla Bruni</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1967); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chryssa" title="Chryssa">Chryssa</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2013)</p>
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