FRIDAY, Dec. 22, 2023

1894 — United States Golf Association is formed (New York NY)

1919 — U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman

1941 — Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference

1962 — USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1965 — Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres

1968 — Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower

1974 — Second cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approximately April 1975

1976 — 35 Unification church couples wed in New York NY

1984 — Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths (muggers) on a NYC subway train

1984 — Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks

1989 — Chad adopts its Constitution

1990 — Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait

1997 — Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA