Right this moment is Tuesday, Dec. 23, the 357th day of 2025. There are eight days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Dec. 23, 1972, in an NFL playoff sport between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders, Steelers working again Franco Harris scored a game-winning landing on a deflected go with lower than 10 seconds left. The “Immaculate Reception,” because the catch got here to be identified, is commonly cited as the best NFL play of all time.
Additionally on this date:
In 1823, the poem “Account of a Go to from St. Nicholas” was revealed anonymously within the Troy Sentinel of New York; the verse, extra popularly often known as “The Night time Earlier than Christmas,” was later attributed to Clement C. Moore.
In 1913, the Federal Reserve System was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.
In 1941, throughout World Warfare II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to Japanese forces.
In 1948, former Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and 6 different Japanese World Warfare II leaders have been executed in Tokyo after being tried for struggle crimes and sentenced to demise by hanging.
In 1968, 82 crew members of the intelligence ship USS Pueblo have been launched by North Korea, 11 months after that they had been captured.
In 1986, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana (JEE’-nuh) Yeager, accomplished the primary nonstop, non-refueled round-the-world flight because it returned safely to Edwards Air Power Base in California.
In 2003, a Virginia jury sentenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in jail, sparing him the demise penalty. Malvo and his older accomplice in crime, John Allen Muhammad, shot and killed 10 individuals over three weeks in October 2002, terrorizing the Washington, D.C., space. Muhammad was executed in 2009.
In 2024, President Joe Biden introduced he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal demise row, changing their punishments to life imprisonment weeks earlier than Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of capital punishment, was to start a second time period.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Former Emperor Akihito of Japan is 92.
- Actor-comedian Harry Shearer is 82.
- Retired U.S. Military Gen. Wesley Ok. Clark is 81.
- Actor Susan Lucci is 79.
- Distance runner Invoice Rodgers is 78.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Jack Ham is 77.
- Political commentator William Kristol is 73.
- Creator Donna Tartt is 62.
- Rock musician Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam is 61.
- Singer, mannequin and former first woman of France Carla Bruni is 58.
- Actor Finn Wolfhard is 23.