It’s almost Christmas!
GSQ would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and safe and happy new year.
On this day – 23 December
| 1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
|
 |
 |
1893 Opera “Hansel und Gretel” by Engelbert Humperdinck and his sister Adelheid Wette premieres in Weimar, conducted by Richard Strauss
|
| 1914 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt
|
|
|
1954 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
|
|
 |
1956 Egypt — British and French troops withdraw from the Suez Canal
|
| 1996 Four women ordained priests in Jamaica, the first in 330 years of Anglican history
|
 |
 |
Kisan Divas or Farmer’s Day or National Farmer’s Day is celebrated in India
|