User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/December 23

December 23:

 * 1783 - George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at Annapolis, Maryland.
 * 1916 - World War I: In the Battle of Magdhaba, Allied forces capture a Turkish garrison on the Sinai peninsula.
 * 1976 - A peace agreement is signed in Tripoli, Libya between the Philippine Government and the Moro National Liberation Front.
 * 1979 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: Soviet military units occupy Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.