On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on January 23:
1582 John Barclay Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)
1730 Joseph Hewes US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)
1828 Calvin Edward Pratt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet French General /minister of War (1899-1900)
1832 Édouard Manet France, Impressionist painter (Déjeuner sur L'Herbe)
1833 John Randolph Chambliss Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1840 Ernst Abbe Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)
1862 David Hilbert Konigsberg East Prussia, mathematician
1898 Sergei Eisenstein Russia, film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
1898 Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1899 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1907 Dan Duryea White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)
1910 Django Reinhardt Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist
1915 Potter Stewart Michigan, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)
1919 Ernie Kovacs Trenton NJ, comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show)
1924 Frank R Lautenberg (Senator-D-NJ, 1983- )
1928 Jeanne Moreau Paris France, actress (Going Places, Jules & Jim)
1930 William Reid Pogue Okemah OK, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1933 Chita Rivera Washington DC, actress (West Side Story, Sweet Charity)
1936 Jerry Kramer Green Bay Packer, author (Instant Replay)
1942 Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin cosmonaut
1943 Gil Gerard Little Rock AR, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1944 Rutger Hauer Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend)
1950 Richard Dean Anderson Minneapolis MN, actor (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1)
1957 Princess Caroline [Louise Marguerite Grimaldi] of Monaco
Deaths which occurred on January 23:
1002 Otto III German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21
1356 Margaretha of Bavaria Empress of Germany, dies
1516 Ferdinand II king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63
1648 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40
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
1813 George Clymer US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 73
1944 Edvard Munch Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80
1945 Helmuth J Moltke German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
1957 Willie Edwards US black, murdered by KKK at 25
1977 Bernard "Toots" Shor barkeeper, dies at 73
1978 Jack Oakie actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74
1989 Salvador Dalí Spanish Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84
1997 Randy Greenawalt convicted killer, executed by injection at 47
1997 Richard Berry lyricist (Louie Louie), dies at 61
1997 Roger John Tayler astrophysicist, dies at 67
1998 Hilla Limann President of Ghana in (1979-81), dies
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1967 BRIDGER BARRY B.---BLADENBORO NC.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1967 GRAY DAVID F.---FT. WALTON BEACH FL.
["03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 RAMSDEN GERALD LEE---FRESNO CA.
1969 HENDERSON WILLIAM R.---CINCINNATI OH.
[01/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1969 LUSTER ROBERT L.---TIFFIN OH.
[01/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED 1976 ID DISPUTED]
1969 MOORMAN FRANK D.---CLIFTON NJ.
[01/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1970 ANZALDUA JOSE J. JR.---REFUGIO TX.
[03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG, ALIVE IN 98]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0638 Start of Islamic calendar
1265 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
1490 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England
1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China
1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians
1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1719 Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire
1779 Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra)
1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1845 Uniform US election day for President & Vice President authorized
1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
1861 Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 100,000 cuttings of 350 varieties from Europe
1865 Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes
1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
1909 1st radio rescue at sea
1916 Temp falls from 44ºF to -56ºF night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies
1924 Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain
1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20
1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp CA (state precipitation record)
1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
1948 John Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens (Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges!)
1950 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
1950 Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel
1953 NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1953 NFL's National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences
1960 Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph "Trieste" reach 10,900 meters in Mariana Trench
1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
1962 Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea
1971 -80ºF Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record)
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 years
1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War
1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1981 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente CA)
1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
1988 Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-point game in a televised title match
1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1991 "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
2001 Five Falun Gong followers set themselves on fire in China's Tiananmen Square; one died.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Luxembourg : Grand Duchess' Birthday
US : Pie Day
US : Spouses Day
National Egg Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Commemoration of St Ildephonsus
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Ildephonsus
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Emerentiana, virgin/martyr
old Roman Catholic : Feast of St Raymond of Penafort, confessor (now 1/7)
Anglican : Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts
Religious History
1656 French scientist Blaise Pascal, 33, published the first of his 18 "Provincial Lettres," the majority of which attacked the Jesuit theories of grace and moral theology.
1755 Under the influence of the Methodist movement, English clergyman John Fletcher, 26, was converted to a living faith. He remained in the Anglican church but afterward became a chief defender of evangelical Arminianism.
1789 Georgetown College was founded by Father John Carroll, 54, in Washington, D.C. Ä the first Roman Catholic college established in America.
1935 British biblical expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'Growth in grace is like the growth of a cow's tail Ä the more it truly grows, the closer to the ground it is brought.'
1943 The New Tribes Mission was incorporated in Los Angeles by founder Paul W. Fleming. NTM works today primarily in missionary aviation, Bible translation, church planting and the production and distribution of Christian literature.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."