On Dec. 23, 1783, George Washington resigned as commander in chief and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

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

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

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.

In 1962, Cuba began releasing prisoners from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

In 2001, Time magazine named New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani its Person of the Year for his steadfast response to the

9/11terrorist attack.