23 January
complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
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23 January |
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| 638 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 | ||
| 1516 Ferdinand II of Aragon died and was succeeded as King of Spain by his grandson Charles V. | ||
| 1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England | ||
| 1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China | ||
| 1570 James Stewart, the Earl of Moray, who was appointed Regent of Scotland on the abdication of Mary Queen of Scots, was assassinated by the Hamiltons at Linlithgow. | ||
| 1571 Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London | ||
| 1574 Lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter was born | ||
| 1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic | ||
| 1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis) was born | ||
| 1631 France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Bärwald | ||
| 1637 Dutch Governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil | ||
| 1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians | ||
| 1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament | ||
| 1663 King Louis XIV affirms covenant with R˙nstaten | ||
| 1668 Holland, Britain and Sweden signed the Alliance of the Hague, known as the Triple Alliance, under which they agreed to aid one another if attacked. | ||
| 1719 The Principality of Liechtenstein was formed by the amalgamation of Vaduz and Schellenberg | ||
| 1723 Georg Friedrich Händel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London | ||
| 1752 Muzio Clementi, Italian composer was born | ||
| 1785 Carl A Agardh, Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad was born | ||
| 1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded | ||
| 1793 Russia and Prussia agreed to a second partition of Poland. | ||
| 1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized | ||
| 1796 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500 | ||
| 1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri | ||
| 1830 Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War (1899-1900) was born | ||
| 1832 Edouard Manet, France, Impressionist painter (D‚jeuner sur L'Herbe) was born | ||
| 1833 Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation | ||
| 1843 Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer was born | ||
| 1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US | ||
| 1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine | ||
| 1856 Steamer Pacific lost | ||
| 1857 Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity) was born | ||
| 1870 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army | ||
| 1878 Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom) was born | ||
| 1879 National Archery Association formed, Crawfordsville IN | ||
| 1883 Gustave Dore, French artist and one of the most successful book illustrators of the 19th century, died. | ||
| 1889 Dr Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago | ||
| 1889 Prosper Arents, Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography) was born | ||
| 1891 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist was born | ||
| 1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes | ||
| 1896 Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres | ||
| 1896 Charlotte A E M W, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64) was born | ||
| 1900 In the second British-Boer War, the British attempted to break through the Boer lines to relieve Ladysmith but were thwarted at the Battle of Spion Kop | ||
| 1907 The first American Indian senator, Charles Curtis of Kansas, began his term in office. | ||
| 1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo | ||
| 1909 1st radio rescue at sea | ||
| 1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies | ||
| 1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th) | ||
| 1924 Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain | ||
| 1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established | ||
| 1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers | ||
| 1937 The trial of 17 leading Communists began in Moscow after they were accused of involvement in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow the regime and assassinate its leaders. | ||
| 1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain | ||
| 1943 British forces under Field Marshal Montgomery captured Tripoli, Libya. | ||
| 1943 After nine days of talks in Casablanca, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to put an invasion of Italy ahead of opening a second front in northwestern Europe. | ||
| 1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation | ||
| 1950 Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel | ||
| 1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung | ||
| 1960 The U.S. navy bathyscaphe Trieste dived to a record depth of 35,810 feet (10,916 meters) in the Pacific Ocean.. | ||
| 1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films | ||
| 1961 Venezuela adopts constitution | ||
| 1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR | ||
| 1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb | ||
| 1963 Harold "Kim" Philby, British journalist in Beirut, disappeared. Later in the year it was revealed that he was the third man in the Burgess-Maclean espionage affair and had been granted asylum in Moscow. | ||
| 1968 North Koreans seized the American ship USS Pueblo, claiming it was spying. The crew were held until December. | ||
| 1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif) | ||
| 1970 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1 | ||
| 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 yrs | ||
| 1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims | ||
| 1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris | ||
| 1978 Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, one of Europe's most powerful industrialists, was kidnapped in Paris; he was freed on March 26. | ||
| 1981 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente Calif) | ||
| 1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin | ||
| 1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 | ||
| 1983 Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis | ||
| 1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean | ||
| 1983 Soviet satellite Cosmos 1402 entered Earth's atmosphere and crashed into the Indian Ocean. | ||
| 1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss) | ||
| 1988
Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands |
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| 1989 Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali died. | ||
| 1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait | ||
| 1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die | ||
| 1994 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina | ||
| 1995 Jacques Delors formally stepped down as European Commission president, handing over to Jacques Santer after 10 years of steering Europe towards closer union. | ||
| 1996 South Korean prosecutors formally charged ex-presidents Roh Tae-woo and Chun Doo Hwan with sedition over events surrounding the 1980 army massacre of pro-democracy activists in Kwangju. | ||
| 1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba |