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Events on the 23rd of January in history

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23 Jan 0393 Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
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23 Jan 0638 Start of Islamic calendar
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23 Jan 0971 In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song dynasty troops.
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23 Jan 1264 In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War.
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23 Jan 1265 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
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23 Jan 1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
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23 Jan 1490 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
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23 Jan 1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
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23 Jan 1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
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23 Jan 1546 Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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23 Jan 1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England
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23 Jan 1556 The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
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23 Jan 1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China
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23 Jan 1570 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
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23 Jan 1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
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23 Jan 1571 The Royal Exchange opens in London.
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23 Jan 1571 Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
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23 Jan 1579 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
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23 Jan 1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
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23 Jan 1631 France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of B
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23 Jan 1637 Dutch Governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil
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23 Jan 1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians
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23 Jan 1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
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23 Jan 1656 Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
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23 Jan 1663 King Louis XIV affirms covenant with R
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23 Jan 1668 England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French
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23 Jan 1719 The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
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23 Jan 1723 Georg Friedrich H
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23 Jan 1779 Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra)
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23 Jan 1789 Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
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23 Jan 1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
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23 Jan 1793 Second Partition of Poland.
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23 Jan 1793 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
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23 Jan 1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized
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23 Jan 1796 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
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23 Jan 1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
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23 Jan 1833 Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
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23 Jan 1845 Uniform US election day for President & Vice President authorized
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23 Jan 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
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23 Jan 1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
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23 Jan 1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
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23 Jan 1855 The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
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23 Jan 1855 The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake and tsunami leaves nine dead in New Zealand.
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23 Jan 1856 Steamer Pacific lost
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23 Jan 1861 Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 100,000 cuttings of 350 varieties from Europe
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23 Jan 1862 Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 10,000
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23 Jan 1865 Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
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23 Jan 1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
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23 Jan 1870 In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
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23 Jan 1870 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
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23 Jan 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
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23 Jan 1879 National Archery Association formed, Crawfordsville IN
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23 Jan 1889 Dr Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
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23 Jan 1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes
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23 Jan 1896 Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres
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23 Jan 1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange" (BG)
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23 Jan 1897 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
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23 Jan 1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (BG)
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23 Jan 1899 Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
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23 Jan 1899 The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic.
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23 Jan 1900 Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
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23 Jan 1902 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for the Stanley Cup
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23 Jan 1904 Ålesund Fire: the 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 style.
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23 Jan 1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
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23 Jan 1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
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23 Jan 1909 RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
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23 Jan 1909 1st radio rescue at sea
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23 Jan 1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
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23 Jan 1916 Temp falls from 44
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23 Jan 1920 The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
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23 Jan 1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies
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23 Jan 1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
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23 Jan 1924 Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain
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23 Jan 1926 Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown" premieres in New York City NY
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23 Jan 1928 "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin
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23 Jan 1930 WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
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23 Jan 1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established
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23 Jan 1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
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23 Jan 1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
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23 Jan 1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20
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23 Jan 1936 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Cura
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23 Jan 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.
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23 Jan 1937 Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge
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23 Jan 1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
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23 Jan 1941 WOR-AM in Newark New Jersey moves to New York City
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23 Jan 1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
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23 Jan 1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
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23 Jan 1942 World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
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23 Jan 1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
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23 Jan 1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
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23 Jan 1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
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23 Jan 1943 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
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23 Jan 1943 Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
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23 Jan 1943 World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
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23 Jan 1943 World War II: Troops of Montgomery's Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
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23 Jan 1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp CA (state precipitation record)
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23 Jan 1943 Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
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23 Jan 1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli
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23 Jan 1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
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23 Jan 1944 Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers and NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals and most lopsided game 15-0
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23 Jan 1944 Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon" premieres in New York City NY
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23 Jan 1945 World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
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23 Jan 1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
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23 Jan 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
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23 Jan 1948 Bradman scores 201 in 272 minutes vs India, 21 fours 1 six
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23 Jan 1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
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23 Jan 1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs India at Adelaide
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23 Jan 1950 AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset
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23 Jan 1950 NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense)
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23 Jan 1950 The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
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23 Jan 1950 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
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23 Jan 1950 Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel
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23 Jan 1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung
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23 Jan 1951 3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg
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23 Jan 1953 NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
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23 Jan 1953 NFL's National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences
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23 Jan 1953 Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 16 years 357 days
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23 Jan 1954 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
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23 Jan 1954 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
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23 Jan 1955 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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23 Jan 1955 KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
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23 Jan 1957 American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
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23 Jan 1958 "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances
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23 Jan 1958 After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
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23 Jan 1958 "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 60 performances
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23 Jan 1958 Dictator Marcos P
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23 Jan 1958 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies
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23 Jan 1960 Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
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23 Jan 1960 The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
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23 Jan 1960 Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph "Trieste" reach 10,900 meters in Mariana Trench
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23 Jan 1961 The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
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23 Jan 1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
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23 Jan 1961 Venezuela adopts constitution
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23 Jan 1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
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23 Jan 1962 Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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23 Jan 1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
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23 Jan 1963 The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
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23 Jan 1964 The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
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23 Jan 1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
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23 Jan 1964 Arthur Miller's "After the Fall" premieres in New York City NY
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23 Jan 1965 "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
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23 Jan 1965 Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain
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23 Jan 1965 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber
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23 Jan 1967 Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages.
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23 Jan 1967 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Côte d'Ivoire are established.
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23 Jan 1967 Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
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23 Jan 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea
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23 Jan 1968 North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying.
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23 Jan 1968 Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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23 Jan 1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
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23 Jan 1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
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23 Jan 1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
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23 Jan 1970 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
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23 Jan 1970 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam
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23 Jan 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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23 Jan 1971 -80
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23 Jan 1971 UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
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23 Jan 1971 4th ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina
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23 Jan 1972 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13
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23 Jan 1972 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi
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23 Jan 1972 Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ
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23 Jan 1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
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23 Jan 1972 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 26-13
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23 Jan 1973 A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
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23 Jan 1973 United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
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23 Jan 1973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 years
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23 Jan 1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
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23 Jan 1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War
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23 Jan 1973 23rd NBA All-Star Game East beats West 104-84 at Chicago
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23 Jan 1974 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
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23 Jan 1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
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23 Jan 1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
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23 Jan 1975 Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
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23 Jan 1976 Washington Capitals end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat the New York Rangers 7-5
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23 Jan 1976 Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs West Indies Adelaide
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23 Jan 1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
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23 Jan 1977 $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
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23 Jan 1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
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23 Jan 1978 8th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 14-13
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23 Jan 1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
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23 Jan 1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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23 Jan 1981 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente, California)
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23 Jan 1981 Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games
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23 Jan 1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
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23 Jan 1981 Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi
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23 Jan 1982 Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approximate date)
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23 Jan 1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2
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23 Jan 1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
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23 Jan 1983 Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis
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23 Jan 1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
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23 Jan 1983 Bj
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23 Jan 1983 In NBA, Portland scores all 17 points in overtime to beat Houston 113-96
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23 Jan 1983 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000
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23 Jan 1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
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23 Jan 1983 Sch
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23 Jan 1984 Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game
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23 Jan 1984 Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km
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23 Jan 1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
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23 Jan 1985 Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
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23 Jan 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 performances
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23 Jan 1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
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23 Jan 1986 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
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23 Jan 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater New York City NY for 13 performances
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23 Jan 1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
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23 Jan 1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 point loss)
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23 Jan 1987 Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
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23 Jan 1988 Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-point game in a televised title match
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23 Jan 1988 45th Golden Globes Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
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23 Jan 1988 62nd Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)
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23 Jan 1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
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23 Jan 1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
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23 Jan 1989 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
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23 Jan 1990 Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
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23 Jan 1991 "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
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23 Jan 1991 High-denomination banknotes withdrawn in USSR
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23 Jan 1991 "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
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23 Jan 1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
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23 Jan 1992 "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
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23 Jan 1992 "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 45 performances
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23 Jan 1993 50th Golden Globes Scent of a Woman, wins
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23 Jan 1993 Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
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23 Jan 1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
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23 Jan 1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
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23 Jan 1993 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
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23 Jan 1994 Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Championship games
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23 Jan 1994 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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23 Jan 1996 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs Zimbabwe
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23 Jan 1997 Greek serial killer Antonis Daglis is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
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23 Jan 1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
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23 Jan 1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
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23 Jan 2001 Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
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23 Jan 2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
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23 Jan 2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
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23 Jan 2003 Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
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23 Jan 2014 A fire breaks out in a L'Isle Verte, Quebec elderly home, killing 28 people.
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23 Jan 3268 Beginning of 2nd Julian Period
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