January 23

Sunday 23, 2005:

Viktor Yushchenko sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.

Saturday 23, 1999:

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.

Tuesday 23, 1912:

The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.

Friday 23, 1570:

The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.

Monday 23, 1533:

Anne Boleyn, mistress of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.

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