About January 23
January 23, 2024 is the 23rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 18 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 23
- 1368 –In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
- 1556 –The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
- 1579 –The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
- 1789 –Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
- 1793 –Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
- 1849 –Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor.
- 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.
- 1907 –Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
- 1928 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
- 1943 –World War II: 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.
- 1958 –Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pérez Jiménez
- 1967 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
- 1968 –North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
- 1973 –A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
- 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.
- 1997 –Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
- 1997 –Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
- 2009 –Dendermonde nursery attack in Dendermonde, Belgium.
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