January 23
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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. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Dec – '''January''' – Feb |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |colspan=4| | 1 | 2 | 3 |- style="text-align:center;" | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |- style="text-align:center;" | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |- style="text-align:center;" | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |- style="text-align:center;" | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |- style="background: lightblue" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangementAll days |} == Events == * 1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history kills 830,000 people in Shanxi Province, China. * 1570 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, 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). * 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor. * 1851 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. * 1904 - Norwegian coastal town lesund 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 United States 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 Two: 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'' breaks a depth record when it descends 35,820 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'', claiming the ship violated their territorial waters while spying. * 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. == Births == * 1737 - John Hancock, statesman and U.S. revolutionary (d. 1793) * 1745 - William Jessop, canal engineer (d. 1814) * 1783 - Stendhal, writer (d. 1842) * 1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (d. 1858) * 1832 - Edouard Manet, impressionist artist (d. 1883) * 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) * 1897 - Margarete Schtte-Lihotzky, architect (d. 2000) * 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, director (d. 1948) * 1903 - Randolph Scott, actor (d. 1987) * 1907 - Dan Duryea, actor (d. 1968) * 1910 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953) * 1919 - Hans Hass, zoologist and underwater scientist * 1919 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (d. 1962) * 1920 - Ray Abrams, tenor saxophonist * 1920 - Gottfried Bhm, architect * 1923 - Walter M. Miller Jr., science fiction writer (d. 1996) * 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, actress * 1930 - Derek Walcott, author * 1933 - Chita Rivera, actress, dancer * 1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football star * 1938 - Georg Baselitz, painter and sculptor * 1943 - Gil Gerard, actor * 1944 - Rutger Hauer, actor * 1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, actor * 1957 - Earl Falconer, bassist * 1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco * 1963 - Gail O'Grady, actress * 1964 - Mariska Hargitay, actress (''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'') * 1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter * 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, actress (''Saved by the Bell'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''Fastlane'') * 1983 - Jano Lavalle, musician * 1993 - Laila El-Haddad == Deaths == * 1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980) * 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 * 1973 - Kid Ory, musician (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 - George Cukor, director (b. 1899) * 1989 - Salvador Dal, artist (b. 1904) * 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) * 2002 - Robert Nozick, philosopher (b. 1938) * 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930) * 2004 - Bob Keeshan, actor ("Captain Kangaroo") (b. 1927) * 2004 - Helmut Newton, photographer (b. 1920) ==Holidays and observances== ---- January 22 - January 24 - December 23 - February 23 -- listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} af:01-23 ar:23 يناير be:23 студзеня bg:23 януари ca:23 de gener cs:23. leden cy:23 Ionawr da:23. januar de:23. 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