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Today In History Highlights From Dec 23
The Associated Press recalls events on this date including George Washington resigning command in 1783, Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s birth in 1995, and a 1933 deadly train collision in thick fog. Also noted are postwar meetings, war criminals, desegregation cheers, and Pope Paul VI’s Christmas appeal.
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