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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 23, the 357th day of 2015. There are eight days left in the year.

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Today's Highlight in History:

On Dec. 23, 1823, the poem "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" was published anonymously in the Troy (New York) Sentinel; the verse, more popularly known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," was later attributed to Clement C. Moore.

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In 1788, Maryland passed an act to cede an area "not exceeding ten miles square" for the seat of the national government; about 2/3 of the area became the District of Columbia.

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In 1893, the Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Haensel und Gretel" was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.

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In 1913, the Federal Reserve System was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.

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In 1928, the National Broadcasting Company set up a permanent, coast-to-coast network.

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In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored the civil rights of about 1,500 people who'd been jailed for opposing the (First) World War.

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In 1941, during World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.

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In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo.

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In 1954, the first successful human kidney transplant took place at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team removed a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick and implanted it in Herrick's twin brother, Richard.

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In 1968, 82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.

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In 1975, Richard S. Welch, the Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Athens, was shot and killed outside his home by the militant group November 17.