Voice actor Harry Shearer

Events in 1943 and 23-12

Events in US in the birth year of Harry Shearer

• President freezes prices, salaries, and wages to prevent inflation .
• Withholding tax on wages introduced. Background: History of the Income Tax in the United States
• The Pentagon is completed and becomes the largest office building in the world.
• The Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1882 and 1902 are repealed permitting immigration and naturalization of Chinese.

Birthday Harry Shearer (23-12) in history

• Day 23-12 year 1783: George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.
• Day 23-12 year 1788: Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the District of Columbia.
• Day 23-12 year 1823: The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the night before Christmas"), written by either Clement C. Moore or Maj. Henry Livingston, Jr., was published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.
• Day 23-12 year 1913: President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the Federal Reserve System.
• Day 23-12 year 1947: The transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley.
• Day 23-12 year 1948: Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed.
• Day 23-12 year 1986: Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling aboard the experimental airplane Voyager.