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Today in History ~ January 23
National Handwriting Day in in USA
Events0638 - Start of Islamic calendar
1265 - 1st English Parliament formally convened
1492 - "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1552 - 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England
1556 - Earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
1647 - Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English Parliament
1719 - Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire
1789 - Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded by Jesuits
1812 - 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1845 - Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1849 - English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
1865 - -Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
1870 - 173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army [H]
1909 - 1st radio rescue at sea
1920 - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany to allies
1922 - Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes. [H]
1932 - New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1932 - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1940 - Pianist Jan Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
1948 - Gen. Eisenhower said he could not accept a presidential nomination from either party; four years later, he ran as a Republican and was elected 34th president of the United States.
1948 - Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
1950 - Israeli Knesset decrees Jerusalem capital of Israel
1960 - Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
1962 - British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
1964 - Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in NYC
1964 - 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
1968 - The USS Pueblo was seized in the Sea of Japan by North Korea, which claimed the ship was on a spy mission. The crew was held for 11 months before being released on Dec. 22, 1968. [H]
1971 - The temperature at Prospect Creek, Alaska, dropped to 80 degrees below zero, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States.
1972 - Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party --100 die -- New Delhi
1972 - Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1973 - Helgafell, island of Heimaey, Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1973 - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War, that U.S. troops would cease fighting in Vietnam at midnight Jan. 27.
1975 - "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC
1977 - Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1980 - President Carter reinstated the Selective Service System.
1981 - 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente, Calif)
1983 - Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1985 - Debate in Britain's House of Lords was carried on live television for the first time.
1988 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling, lands
1988 - Sandinista missiles downed a cargo plane that was dropping U.S.-financed supplies to Contra rebels in south-eastern Nicaragua. Four crewmen were killed.
1989 - Challenge to "Who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
1991 - After some 12,000 sorties in the Gulf War, Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said heavy bombing had destroyed Iraq's two operating nuclear reactors and damaged chemical facilities. Also announced allied forces had achieved air superiority, and would focus air fire on Iraqi ground forces around Kuwait.
1991 - "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1991 - World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1991 - Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady asked Congress for another $80 billion toward the bailout of the nation's troubled savings and loan industry.
1992 - Forty-seven nations, including the United States, agreed on a massive global humanitarian effort to rescue millions of hungry people in the former Soviet Union.
1993 - NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1993 - Convicted "diet doc" killer Jean Harris was freed, discharged from a New York state hospital after heart surgery and with a grant of clemency from the governor.
1996 - Delivering his State of the Union address to a skeptical Republican Congress, President Clinton traced the themes of his re-election campaign and confronted GOP lawmakers on the budget, demanding they "never _ ever" shut down the government again.
1997 - Madeline Albright was sworn into office to become the first woman secretary of state.
1997 - Cancer experts who were supposed to settle a furious controversy over whether women should start having mammograms at age 40 or age 50 decided instead to leave the decision up to patients.
1998 - Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Catholic Cuba
2001 - California energy officials eked sufficient power out of tight West Coast electricity supplies to avoid rush hour blackouts as lawmakers scrambled to make longer-term deals to buy power.
2001 - Five Falun Gong followers set themselves on fire in China's Tiananmen Square; one died.
Birthdays Today
1730 - Joseph Hewes, US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)
1737 - John Hancock, statesman and patriot, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. President of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, was the first to put his signature on the Declaration of Independence--"I'll sign it in letters bold enough so the King of England can see it without his spectacles on!". Note: Some sources state that John Hancock was born on January 12 and other sources state January 23. National Handwriting Day in his honor is on the 23rd.
1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer
1783 - Stendahl, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir)
1832 - Edouard Manet (artist: leader of the impressionist movement)
1832 - Edouard Manet, France, Impressionist painter
1837 - John Field, composer, dies at 54
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director (Battleship Potemkin)
1903 - Randolph Scott (actor: Last of the Mohicans, The Nevadan, Ride the High Country, To the Shores of Tripoli, Man in the Saddle, Go West Young Man, Bombardier)
1907 - Dan Duryea (actor: The Flight of the Phoenix, Five Golden Dragons)
1907 - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
1915 - Potter Stewart (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1959]) 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)
1919 - Ernie Kovacs (comedian: The Ernie Kovacs Show; actor: Bell Book and Candle, North to Alaska)
1920 - Ray Abrams (jazz musician)
1925 - Marty Paich (pianist, composer, arranger)
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, Paris France, actress (Going Places, Jules & Jim)
1928 - Ken Errair (singer, musician: group: The Four Freshmen)
1933 - Chita Rivera (Conchita del Rivero) (singer, dancer, actress: Sweet Charity, Pippin, Mayflower Madam)
1934 - Joey Amalfitano (baseball manager)
1934 - Lou Antonio (actor, director: Mayflower Madam, A Real American Hero, A Taste for Killing)
1936 - Jerry Kramer (football: Green Bay Packers G: Super Bowl I, II)
1938 - Eugene Church (entertainer)
1943 - Gil Gerard (actor: Buck Rogers, Sidekicks, Hooch, Soldier's Fortune)
1944 - Rutger Hauer (actor: Lady Hawke, Nighthawks, Blade Runner, Beyond Justice, Forbidden Choices)
1950 - Actor Richard Dean Anderson
1952 - Stan Washington (basketball)
1953 - Pat Haden (football: Los Angeles Rams)
1954 - Ralph Nelson (football)
1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
1963 - Actress Gail O'Grady
1974 - Actress Tiffini-Amber Thiessen
Famous deaths
1622 - William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38
1639 - Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake
1800 - Edward Rutledge, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 50
1806 - William Pitt, the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783..1806), dies at 46
1908 - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80
1945 - Helmuth J Moltke, German politician (July 20th Plot), executed at 37
1956 - Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62
1957 - Willie Edwards, US black, murdered by KKK at 25
1976 - Paul Robeson, athlete/lawyer/singer, dies in Philadelphia at 77
1989 - Salvador Dali, Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84
1997 - Richard Berry, lyricist (Louie Louie), dies at 61
1997 - Laura "Dinky" Patterson, dies bungee jumping at Superbowl rehearsal at 43
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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