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January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 342 days remaining, 343 in
leap years .
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
1510 - Henry VIII of England , then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond , and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
1533 - Anne Boleyn , mistress of Henry VIII of England , discovers herself pregnant.
1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais brings out his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel : the Tiers Livre .
1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake , hits Shaanxi province, China . The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1570 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war .
1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in London .
1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands .
1656 - Blaise Pascal published the first of his Lettres provinciales 1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire .
1789 - Georgetown College becomes the first Roman Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC ).
1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland .
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York , becoming the United States ' first woman doctor.
1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota , a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge .
1870 - In Montana , U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Indians , most women and children, in the Marias Massacre .
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War : Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
1897 - Elva Zona Heaster found dead in Greenbrier County , West Virginia . The resulting murder trial of her husband was perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo was sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic .
1904 - Ålesund Fire : Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil architecture.
1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American US Senator .
1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague .
1920 - The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies .
1937 - In Moscow , 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin 's regime and assassinate its leaders.
1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler .
1943 - World War II : British forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis .
1943 - Jewish-led Warsaw Ghetto Uprising .
1943 - World War II : Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua . This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
1943 - Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1945 - World War II : Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal .
1950 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel .
1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean . The depth was measured to be 35,813 feet (10,916 m) but later measurements show it to be 35,798 feet (10,911 m).
1964 - The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution , prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1967 - Milton Keynes (England) founded by Order in Council . (See History of Milton Keynes )
1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo , claiming the ship violated their territorial waters while spying.
1973 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam .
1973 - A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland .
1977 - The first segment of the Roots ABC .
1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays , believed to be damaging to earth's protective ozone layer .
1983 - The television show The A-Team starts its first season on the NBC network.
1984 - "Hulkamania" is born when Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik to win the WWF Championship
1985 - O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame .
1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry , James Brown , Ray Charles , Fats Domino , Everly Brothers , Buddy Holly , Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley .
1996 - The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State .
2002 - "American Taliban " John Walker Lindh returns to the United States under FBI custody.
2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped -- and subsequently murdered -- in Karachi , Pakistan .
2005 - Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev , Ukraine .
2006 - After over 12 years of Liberal Party rule, Stephen Harper 's Conservative Party wins the most seats in the Canadian federal election . Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada with a minority government , assuming office February 6 .
2007 - A rare frilled shark is discovered in Japan .
Births 1350 - Vincent Ferrer , Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419 )
1719 - John Landen , English mathematician (d. 1790 )
1745 - William Jessop , English canal engineer (d. 1814 )
1783 - Stendhal , French writer (d. 1842 )
1786 - Auguste de Montferrand , French architect (d. 1858 )
1813 - Camilla Collett , Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895 )
1827 - Takamori Saigo , Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877 )
1832 - Edouard Manet , French artist (d. 1883 )
1840 - Ernst Abbe , German physicist (d. 1905 )
1857 - Andrija Mohorovičić , Croatian seismologist (d. 1936 )
1862 - David Hilbert , German mathematician (d. 1943 )
1872 - Gotse Delchev , Macedonian revolutionary (d. 1903 )
1872 - Paul Langevin , French physicist (d. 1946 )
1872 - Joze Plečnik , Slovenian architect (d. 1957 )
1876 - Otto Diels , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954 )
1884 - Ralph DePalma , Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956 )
1888 - Leadbelly , American blues and folk musician (d. 1949 )
1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985 )
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose , Indian independence fighter (d. 1897 )
1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , Austrian architect (d. 2000 )
1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson , Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond.
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein , Russian film director (d. 1948 )
1898 - Randolph Scott , American actor (d. 1987 )
1900 - William Ifor Jones , Welsh conductor & organist (d. 1988 )
1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán , Colombian politician (d. 1948 )
1907 - Dan Duryea , American actor (d. 1968 )
1907 - Hideki Yukawa , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981 )
1910 - Django Reinhardt , Belgian guitarist (d. 1953 )
1915 - Arthur Lewis , British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
1915 - Potter Stewart , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985 )
1918 - Gertrude B. Elion , American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999 )
1919 - Hans Hass , Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1919 - Ernie Kovacs , American comedian (d. 1962 )
1923 - Walter M. Miller, Jr. , American writer (d. 1996 )
1928 - Chico Carrasquel , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005 )
1928 - Jeanne Moreau , French actress
1929 - John Charles Polanyi , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1930 - Derek Walcott , West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 - Teresa Żylis-Gara , Polish singer
1933 - Chita Rivera , Puerto Rican actress and dancer
1934 - Pierre Bourgault , Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003 )
1936 - Jerry Kramer , American football player
1938 - Shohei Baba , Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999 )
1938 - Georg Baselitz , German painter and sculptor
1939 - Sonny Chiba , Japanese actor and martial artist
1939 - Arlene Golonka , American actress
1940 - Johnny Russell , American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001 )
1943 - Gil Gerard , American actor
1943 - Millie Jackson , American singer
1943 - Gary Burton , American jazz vibraphonist
1944 - Rutger Hauer , Dutch actor
1945 - Mike Harris , Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
1946 - Arnoldo Alemán , ex-president of Nicaragua
1947 - Thomas R. Carper , U.S. Senator from Delaware .
1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri , 5th President of Indonesia
1948 - Anita Pointer , American singer (Pointer Sisters )
1950 - Richard Dean Anderson , American actor
1950 - Danny Federici , American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band )
1952 - Robin Zander , American singer (Cheap Trick )
1953 - Antonio Villaragoisa , American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1954 - Franco De Vita , Venezuelan singer and songwriter
1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
1959 - Clive Bull , radio talk show host
1963 - Gail O'Grady , American actress
1964 - Mariska Hargitay , American actress
1964 - Mario Roberge , National Hockey League player
1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu , Bulgarian-born, Turkish weightlifter
1968 - Petr Korda , Czech tennis player
1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis , Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1969 - Brendan Shanahan , Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Spiridon Vasdekis , Greek long jumper
1972 - Marcel Wouda , Dutch swimmer
1972 - Mark Curry , American rapper
1973 - Lanei Chapman , American actress
1974 - Tiffani Thiessen , American actress
1974 - Richard T. Slone , British artist
1974 - Yosvani Pérez , Cuban baseball star
1974 - Rebekah Elmaloglou , Australian actress
1975 - Tito Ortiz , American UFC fighter
1979 - Larry Hughes , American basketball player
1979 - Sampsa Astala , Finnish musician (Lordi )
1982 - Wily Mo Pena , Major League Baseball player
1983 - David Firth , British animator/musician
1983 - George Foreman III , American reality series star; son of George Foreman
1984 - Arjen Robben , Dutch footballer
1985 - Doutzen Kroes , Dutch supermodel
1985 - Dong Fangzhuo , Chinese footballer
1986 - Felicia Brandström , Swedish singer
Deaths 1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160 )
1548 - Bernardo Pisano , Italian composer (b. 1490 )
1549 - Johannes Honter , Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498 )
1567 - Jiajing , Emperor of China (b. 1507 )
1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray , regent of Scotland (assassinated)
1622 - William Baffin , English explorer (b. 1584 )
1744 - Giambattista Vico , Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668 )
1785 - Matthew Stewart , Scottish mathematician (b. 1717 )
1789 - Frances Brooke , English writer (b. 1724 )
1789 - John Cleland , English novelist (b. 1709 )
1800 - Edward Rutledge , American statesman (b. 1749 )
1803 - Arthur Guinness , Irish brewer (b. 1725 )
1805 - Claude Chappe , French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763 )
1806 - William Pitt the Younger , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759 )
1812 - Robert Craufurd , British general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1764 )
1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth , British admiral (b. 1757 )
1837 - John Field , Irish composer (b. 1782 )
1866 - Thomas Love Peacock , English satirist (b. 1785 )
1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819 )
1883 - Gustave Doré , French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832 )
1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825 )
1922 - Arthur Nikisch , Hungarian conductor (b. 1855 )
1923 - Max Nordau , Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849 )
1931 - Anna Pavlova , Russian ballerina (b. 1881 )
1937 - Marie Prevost , Canadian actress (b. 1898 )
1937 - Orso Mario Corbino , Italian physicist (b. 1876 )
1939 - Matthias Sindelar , Austrian footballer (b. 1903 )
1943 - Alexander Woollcott , American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887 )
1944 - Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter (b. 1863 )
1944 - Viktor Gusev , Russian poet (b. 1909 )
1956 - Alexander Korda , Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893 )
1958 - Nikolaos Georgantas , Greek discus thrower (b. 1880 )
1971 - Fritz Feigl , Austria-born chemist (b. 1871 )
1973 - Kid Ory , American jazz trombonist (b. 1886 )
1976 - Paul Dupuis , French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913 )
1976 - Paul Robeson , American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898 )
1977 - Toots Shor , New York restaurateur (b. 1903 )
1978 - Terry Kath , American musician (Chicago ) (b. 1946 )
1978 - Jack Oakie , American actor (b. 1903 )
1978 - Vic Ames , American signer (Ames Brothers ) (b. 1925 )
1981 - Samuel Barber , American composer (b. 1910 )
1983 - Fred Bakewell , English cricketer (b. 1908 )
1989 - Salvador Dalí , Catalan artist (b. 1904 )
1990 - Allen Collins , American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd ) (b. 1952 )
1992 - Freddie Bartholomew , Irish actor (b. 1924 )
1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey , American singer (b. 1899 )
1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov , Soviet field marshal (b. 1917 )
1994 - Brian Redhead , English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929 )
1997 - Richard Berry , American composer and musician (b. 1935 )
1999 - Jay Pritzker , American businessman (b. 1922 )
1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson , Jamaican musician (b. 1949 )
2002 - Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist (b. 1930 )
2002 - Paul Aars , American racecar driver (b. 1934 )
2002 - Robert Nozick , American philosopher (b. 1938 )
2003 - Nell Carter , American singer and actress (b. 1948 )
2004 - Bob Keeshan , American actor (b. 1927 )
2004 - Helmut Newton , German-born photographer (b. 1920 )
2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare , British politician (b. 1921 )
2005 - Johnny Carson , American television legend (b. 1925 )
2005 - Douglas Knight , American university president (b. 1921 )
2006 - Ernie Baron , Philippine newscaster (b. 1940 )
2006 - Chris McKinstry , Canadian scientist (b. 1967 )
2007 - E. Howard Hunt , American Watergate figure (b. 1918 )
2007 - Ryszard Kapuściński , Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932 )
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