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This day in history: December 23

1. 1919

   The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was enacted, lifting most of the existing common-law restrictions on women in the United Kingdom.

2. 1957

   Leading the Australia national cricket team, Ian Craig became the youngest-ever Test cricket captain at the time.

3. 1958

   Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding tower, opened.

4. 1984

   An engine fire caused Aeroflot Flight 3519 to crash shortly after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk, USSR, killing all but one of the 111 people on board.

5. 1990

   About 88 percent of eligible voters in Slovenia voted to secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

6. 1997

   The Pioneer Helmet, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered, was first placed on public display.

7. 2008

   The Guinean military engineered a coup d'état, announcing that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election.

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