January 23
Sunday 23, 2005:
Viktor Yushchenko sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.
Wednesday 23, 2002:
Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.
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.
Thursday 23, 1997:
Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
Thursday 23, 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)
Wednesday 23, 1985:
O. J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
Monday 23, 1984:
Hulk Hogan wins the World Wrestling Federation Championship from the Iron Sheik, in New York's Madison Square Garden. Hulkamania is born.
Sunday 23, 1983:
The A-Team debuts.
Monday 23, 1978:
Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective ozone layer.
Sunday 23, 1977:
The first segment of the Roots mini-series airs on ABC.
Thursday 23, 1975:
Barney Miller debuts on ABC.
Tuesday 23, 1973:
President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
Tuesday 23, 1968:
North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated their territorial waters while spying.
Thursday 23, 1964:
The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
Saturday 23, 1960:
The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record when by descending to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean. (The depth was measured to be 35,813 ft (10,916 m) but later measurements show it to be 35,798 ft (10,911 m))
Monday 23, 1950:
The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
Saturday 23, 1943:
Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
Thursday 23, 1941:
Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
Saturday 23, 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.
Friday 23, 1920:
The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
Tuesday 23, 1912:
The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
Wednesday 23, 1907:
Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.
Saturday 23, 1904:
Ålesund Fire: Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless. German Kaiser Wilhelm helps rebuild the town in Jugendstil architecture.
Sunday 23, 1870:
Marias Massacre
Tuesday 23, 1855:
The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
Tuesday 23, 1849:
Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
Monday 23, 1843:
The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
Friday 23, 1789:
Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC).
Monday 23, 1719:
The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
Tuesday 23, 1579:
The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
Saturday 23, 1571:
The Royal Exchange opens in London.
Friday 23, 1570:
The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
Monday 23, 1556:
The Shaanxi earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China. 830,000 people may have been killed.
Wednesday 23, 1546:
Having published nothing for 11 years, Francois Rabelais brings out his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel: the Tiers Libre.
Monday 23, 1533:
Anne Boleyn, mistress of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
Sunday 23, 1510:
Henry VIII of England, 18, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself.
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