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It happened on a… December 23

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It happened on a… December 23

1972

16 plane crash survivors rescued from Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 after 72 days on the Andean Mountains, after only surviving through cannibalism

1970

NYC World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m).

1969

Quebec government creates Loto-Québec.

1968

Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the 1st men to orbit the Moon (Apollo 8)

1951

A National Football League (NFL) championship game was televised nationally for the first time. The Los Angeles Rams beat the Cleveland Browns 24-17.

1893

The Engelbert Humperdinck opera “Hansel und Gretel” was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.

1888

Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.

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