TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Dec. 23, 1928

The National Broadcasting Company set up a permanent, coast-to-coast network.

ON THIS DATE 1954

The first successful human kidney transplant took place at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team removed a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick and implanted it in Herrick’s twin brother, Richard.

1968

82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.

1986

The experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, non-refueled round-the-world flight as it returned safely to Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1997

A federal jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, declining to find him guilty of murder.