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- 1823
- Yucatán joins Mexico.
- 1856
- St. Matthew Church in St. Pancras, now part of London, is consecrated.
- 1970
- One World Trade Center in New York City tops out to become the world's tallest building.
- 1982
- The second segment of Seoul Subway's Line 2 is opened from Seoul National University of Education to Sports Complex station.
- 2000
- Bayawan in the Philippines becomes a city.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on December 23, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on December 23 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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We appreciate your help in curating these events from OpenHistoricalMap data. Items should be based on fully qualified start_date=* and end_date=* tags, plus any other metadata tagged on features in OpenHistoricalMap. To the extent possible, the list should feature a wide range of years and include events from different continents.