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January 23
(Redirected from 23 January)
January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 342 days remaining, 343 in leap years.
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Events
1500-1899
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1556 - The Shanxi earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, kills 830,000 people in Shanxi Province, China.
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1570 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
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1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in London.
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1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
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1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
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1789 - Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC).
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1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
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1851 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
1900-1949
1950-1999
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1950 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
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1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record when it descends 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Pacific Ocean.
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1964 - The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
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1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated their territorial waters while spying.
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1973 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
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1975 - Barney Miller debuts on ABC.
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1977 - The first segment of the Roots mini-series airs on ABC.
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1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective ozone layer.
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1983 - The A-Team debuts.
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1985 - O. J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
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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)
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1997 - Mir Aimal Kasi receives the death sentence for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed two and wounded three others.
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1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
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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.
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Births
1700-1899
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1745 - William Jessop, canal engineer (d. 1814)
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1783 - Stendhal, writer (d. 1842)
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1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (d. 1858)
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1832 - Edouard Manet, impressionist artist (d. 1883)
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1857 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
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1862 - David Hilbert, Mathematician (d. 1943)
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1872 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)
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1872 - Joze Plečnik, architect (d. 1957)
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1878 - Oton Župančič , Slovenian poet (d. 1949)
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1884 - Ralph DePalma, race car driver (d. 1956)
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1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect (d. 2000)
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1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, director (d. 1948)
1900-1999
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1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
- 1903 - Randolph Scott, actor (d. 1987)
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1907 - Dan Duryea , actor (d. 1968)
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1907 - Hideki Yukawa, physicist (d. 1981)
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1910 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953)
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1919 - Hans Hass, zoologist and underwater scientist
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1919 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (d. 1962)
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1920 - Ray Abrams , tenor saxophonist
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1920 - Gottfried Böhm , architect
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1923 - Walter M. Miller Jr., science fiction writer (d. 1996)
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1928 - Jeanne Moreau, actress
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1930 - Derek Walcott, author
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1933 - Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
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1936 - Jerry Kramer , American football star
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1938 - Georg Baselitz, painter and sculptor
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1943 - Gil Gerard, actor
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1944 - Rutger Hauer, actor
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1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, actor
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1957 - Earl Falconer , bassist
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1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
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1963 - Gail O'Grady , actress
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1964 - Mariska Hargitay, actress
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1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
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1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, actress
Deaths
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1900-1999
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1923 - Max Nordau, author, philosopher and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
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1931 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina (b. 1881)
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1937 - Marie Prevost, actress (b. 1898)
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1943 - Alexander Woollcott, actor, author, bon vivant (b. 1887)
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1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter
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1973 - Kid Ory, musician (b. 1886)
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1976 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer, social activist (b. 1898)
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1978 - Jack Oakie, actor (b. 1903)
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1978 - Terry Kath, musician ("Chicago") (b. 1946)
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1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
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1983 - George Cukor, director (b. 1899)
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1989 - Salvador Dalí, artist (b. 1904)
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1991 - Northrop Frye, literary critic (b. 1912)
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1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (b. 1924)
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1993 - Thomas Dorsey, gospel music singer (b. 1899)
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1994 - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
January 22 - January 24 - December 23 - February 23 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-08-2005 11:07:16
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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