The crew and captain of the U.S. intelligence gathering ship
Pueblo were released after 11 months imprisonment by the
government of North Korea. The ship, and its 83-man crew,
was seized by North Korean warships on January 23 and
charged with intruding into North Korean waters.
Navy intelligence ship Pueblo.
Lloyd Mark "Pete" Bucher
(1 September 1927 – 28 January 2004)
On December 23, 1823, “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” perhaps
the most famous and influential Christmas poem ever was
published in the Troy Sentinel newspaper in New York by
an anonymous author.
Called "arguably the best-known verses ever written,” it
would shape the modern image of Santa Claus as "a right
jolly old elf" who travels through the air in a reindeer-
powered sleigh on Christmas eve, bounding down
chimneys after children are asleep to leave them gifts.
Clement Clarke Moore
(July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863)
On December 22, 1808, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67—the “Fifth Symphony”—received
its world premiere in Vienna. It was a benefit concert held
for Beethoven at the Theater an der Wien. It would soon
become the world’s most recognizable piece of classical
music.
Ludwig van Beethoven
(baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827)
ROSS SIMPSON
Madonna, aged 42, married Guy Ritchie, who was ten years
her junior, in a ceremony steeped in the groom’s Scottish heritage.
On December 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo entered the
world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever
gorilla born in captivity. Weighing in at approximately 4 pounds,
Colo, a western lowland gorilla whose name was a combination
of Columbus and Ohio, was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two
gorillas captured in French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought
to the Columbus Zoo in 1951.
Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught in the
wild, often by brutal means. In order to capture a gorilla when
it was young and therefore still small enough to handle, hunters frequently had to kill the gorilla’s parents and other family
members.
Mother Millie with her daughter Colo who died in 2017.
