January 23
January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 342 days remaining, 343 in leap years .
Events
1510 - Henry VIII of England , 18, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond , and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself.
1533 - Anne Boleyn , mistress of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
1546 - Having published nothing for 11 years, Francois Rabelais brings out his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel : the Tiers Libre .
1556 - The Shaanxi earthquake , the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China . 830,000 people may have been killed.
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 .
1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire .
1789 - Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC ).
1843 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts , or Portland, Maine , with Portland winning.
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York , thus 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 - Marias Massacre
1904 - Ålesund Fire : Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless. German Kaiser Wilhelm helps rebuild the town in Jugendstil architecture.
1907 - Charles Curtis from Kansas , becomes the first Native American US Senator .
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 from the Nazis .
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 New York City 's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
1950 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel .
1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste feet (10,750 meters ) in the Pacific Ocean .
1964 - The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution , prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo 1973 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam .
1975 - Barney Miller debuts on ABC .
1977 - The first segment of the Roots mini-series airs on ABC.
1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective ozone layer .
1983 - The A-Team debuts.
1985 - O. J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame .
1986 - The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry , James Brown , Ray Charles , Fats Domino , Everly Brothers , Buddy Holly , Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley )
1997 - Mir Aimal Kasi receives the death sentence for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed two and wounded three others.
1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State .
1999 - Australian Christian missionary Graham Stewart Stains and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in eastern India.
2002 - "American Taliban " John Walker Lindh returns to the United States under FBI custody.
2002 - Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered in Karachi , Pakistan .
2005 - Viktor Yushchenko sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev , Ukraine .
Births
1745 - William Jessop , canal engineer (d. 1814 )
1783 - Stendhal , French writer (d. 1842 )
1786 - Auguste de Montferrand , French architect (d. 1858 )
1832 - Edouard Manet , French impressionist artist (d. 1883 )
1840 - Ernst Abbe , German physicist (d. 1905 )
1857 - Andrija Mohorovičić , Croatian seismologist (d. 1936 )
1862 - David Hilbert , mathematician (d. 1943 )
1872 - Goce Delchev , Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903 )
1872 - Joze Plečnik , architect (d. 1957 )
1878 - Oton Župančič , Slovenian poet (d. 1949 )
1884 - Ralph DePalma , race car driver (d. 1956 )
1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , architect (d. 2000 )
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein , Russian film director (d. 1948 )
1898 - Randolph Scott , American actor (d. 1987 )
1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán , Colombian politician (d. 1948 )
1907 - Dan Duryea , actor (d. 1968 )
1907 - Hideki Yukawa , physicist (d. 1981 )
1910 - Django Reinhardt , guitarist (d. 1953 )
1915 - Potter Stewart , Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1985 )
1919 - Hans Hass , zoologist and underwater scientist
1919 - Ernie Kovacs , American comedian (d. 1962 )
1920 - Ray Abrams , tenor saxophonist
1920 - Gottfried Böhm , architect
1923 - Walter M. Miller Jr. , science fiction writer (d. 1996 )
1928 :
1930 - Derek Walcott , author
1933 - Chita Rivera , actress, dancer
1936 - Jerry Kramer , American football star
1938 :
1939 - Arlene Golonka , American actress
1943 - Gil Gerard , actor
1944 - Rutger Hauer , actor
1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri , President of Indonesia
1948 - Anita Pointer , American singer
1950 :
1957 :
1963 - Gail O'Grady , actress
1964 - Mariska Hargitay , actress
1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu , Bulgaria -born Turkish weightlifter
1974 - Tiffani Thiessen , actress
Deaths
1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980 )
1199 - Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur (B. 1160 )
1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland (b. ca. 1531 )
1789 - John Cleland , novelist (b. 1709 )
1800 - Edward Rutledge , U.S. statesman (b. 1749 )
1805 - Claude Chappe , telecommunications pioneer (semaphores ) (b. 1763 )
1837 - John Field , composer (b. 1782 )
1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819 )
1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar , the only United States Supreme Court justice from Mississippi (b. 1825 )
1923 - Max Nordau , author, philosopher and Zionist leader (b. 1849 )
1931 - Anna Pavlova , ballerina (b. 1881 )
1937 - Marie Prevost , actress (b. 1898 )
1943 - Alexander Woollcott , actor, author, bon vivant (b. 1887 )
1944 - Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter (b. 1863 )
1973 - Kid Ory , Jazz trombonist (b. 1886 )
1976 - Paul Robeson , actor, singer, social activist (b. 1898 )
1978 - Jack Oakie , actor (b. 1903 )
1978 - Terry Kath , musician ("Chicago ") (b. 1946 )
1981 - Samuel Barber , American composer (b. 1910 )
1983 - Fred Bakewell , exciting and unorthodox Northamptonshire and England batsman (b. 1908 )
1989 - Salvador Dalí , artist (b. 1904 )
1990 - Allen Collins , American musician
1991 - Northrop Frye , literary critic (b. 1912 )
1992 - Freddie Bartholomew , actor (b. 1924 )
1993 - Thomas Dorsey , gospel music singer (b. 1899 )
1994 - Brian Redhead , journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929 )
1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov , Russian marshal
1997 - Richard Berry , American composer, musician
1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson , 49, reggae musician and rasta
2001 - Francisco "Curro" Rivera , Mexican bullfighter
2002 - Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist (b. 1930 )
2002 - Robert Nozick , philosopher (b. 1938 )
2003 - Nell Carter , singer, actress (b. 1948 )
2004 - Bob Keeshan , actor ("Captain Kangaroo ") (b. 1927 )
2004 - Helmut Newton , photographer (b. 1920 )
2005 - Johnny Carson , television personality (b. 1925 )
2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare , former Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords , Minister of State (b. 1921 )
2005 - Douglas Knight , former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
2005 - Charles Martin , American football player
2005 - Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), Japanese actress
Holidays and observances
External links
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