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Huneric, rei dels Ullal-de-guerra, per Artigas. [font]

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History Deaths on December 23

History Deaths on December 23

History Events on December 23

I hope you all have your aluminium poles up: it's Festivus (for the rest of us)! I know I'm ready. I prepared cue cards for the Airing of Grievances and have been training hard for the after dinner Feats of Strength. It's gonna be one hell of a happy holiday. Hold onto your butts, it's time for another Wacky Names From History! In 484 Huneric, king of the Vandals, died, presumably murdered by people who hated graffiti. His nephew Gunthamund became king. In 558 Chlothar I became King of the Franks (much to the chagrin of the Frank community who thought their king should at least be a Fred if they couldn't find a Frank). In 583 Yohl Ik'nal was crowned ruler of Palenque, a Mayan city in Mexico. And in 679 Dagobert II was murdered while hunting. A lot of things can go wrong when you hunt. Fall from a horse; you miss your thrust with a boar spear; bears. Finally in Wacky Names From History, Engelbert Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel: The Opera was first shown. It is sadly not Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. In 1938 the coelacanth was rediscovered off South Africa by Majorie Courtney-Latimer, a museum curator, in a fisherman's haul. The first successful kidney transplant was pulled off in 1954. In 1982 the Soviets occupied Kabul. And, like every other invasion of Afghanistan, it went great and there were no issues at all. Micheline Ostermeyer was born in 1922. Despite sounding as if she invented both a tire and hotdog company, she was in fact an olympic gold medallist. In two different sports. And a concert pianist. Harry Shearer of Spinal Tap and the Simpsons was born in 1943. He provides the voice of Kent Brockman, Principal Skinner, Mr. Burns and Smithers (meaning he talks to himself a lot), Flanders and more! Canadian 80s teen idol Corey Haim was born in 1971. He's best known for starring with Corey Feldman in the Lost Boys and for dying in 2010. The flower of the day is Oktoberfest. Because it already happened.