In History December 23: 1751: France sets plan to tax clergymen. 1779: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for improper conduct. 1783: General George Washington resigns his military commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to Congress. 1888: Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his left ear. 1907: The first all-steel passenger railroad coach completed in Altoona, Pennsylvania. 1912: Aswan Dam in The Nile begins operation. 1913: President Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act into law. 1919: The first hospital ship built to move wounded Naval personnel is launched. Alice H. Parker patents a gas heating furnace. 1944: The beginning of a harsh winter. 1954: The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. 1968: The first United States case of space motion sickness. 1970: New Yorks World Trade Center reaches its highest point. 1975: Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act. 1987: Lynette Squeaky Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of United States President Gerald Ford escapes from the Alderson Prison. 1997: Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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