HAPPENED TODAY
December 23, 1893: debuts in Weimar Germany "Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck.
December 23, 1947: John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley invent the transistor. The word is derived from "transfer resistor" transfer resistor. The semiconductor is the basis for evolution mail.
December 23, 1964: In England start the war on the BBC radio monopoly. Born pirate stations, Radio London was the first.
December 23, 1977: Roman a student of 16 years, Massimo Di Pilla, supporters of the extreme left, is seriously wounded in an attack.
December 23, 1978: plane crash near the airport of Palermo Punta Raisi. Sinks a DC9 with 129 people on board. 108 die.
December 23, 1984: Two bombs devastate the rapid 904 Napoli-Milan. 17 people die, another 158 are injured. Frightening similarities to the massacre of the train Italicus of 1974, which occurred almost at the same point, the gallery of San Benedetto Val di Sambro.
December 23, 1986: The experimental aircraft "Voyager completes the first round the world nonstop and without refueling. In the cockpit there are Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager.
December 23, 1990: An overwhelming majority of Slovenes vote for secession from Yugoslavia of their Republic.
December 23, 2000: Calcutta is the third Indian city to return to the pre-colonial name, now returns to Kolkata. The same had Bombay and Madras, now Chennai, and Mumbai.
BORN TODAY
December 23, 1812: Samuel Smiles, writer "A place for everything and everything in its place"
December 23, 1933: Akihito, emperor of Japan
December 23, 1956: Michele Alboreto, F1 pilot
December 23, 1958: Dave Murray of Iron Maiden guitarist
December 23, 1964: Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam
Ilaria Biancacci
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