About January 23
January 23, 2025 is the 23rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 6 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 23
- 3102 BCE –Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
- 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.
- 1533 –Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
- 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.
- 1579 –The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
- 1849 –Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor.
- 1899 –Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
- 1912 –The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
- 1920 –The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
- 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.
- 1941 –Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
- 1943 –Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
- 1943 –World War II: Troops of Montgomery’s 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
- 1945 –World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
- 1961 –The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by foes of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar was overthrown.
- 1968 –North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
- 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.
- 2003 –Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
- 2031 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
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