23 Januar
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The 23rd o Januar is the 23rd day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 342 days ti come (343 in lowp years).
Events
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- 1556 - A major yirdquauk strikes Shaanxi, Cheenae, killin an estimatit 800,000 fowk.
- 1719 - The Principality o Liechtenstein is creatit.
- 1896 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays.
- 1909 - A magnitude 7.3 yirdquauk in Iran kills 5,500 fowk.
- 1950 - The Israeli Knesset declares Jerusalem tae be the caipital ceety.
- 1960 - The Bathyscaphe Trieste, wi Jacques Piccard an Don Ward dives 10,911 metres unner the Paceefic Ocean.
- 1973 - The Eldfell volcanae on the Icelandic island o Heimaey erupts.
- 1973 - Richard Nixon propales peace accord wi Vietnam.
- 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Unitit States Secretar o State.
- 2005 - Viktor Yushchenko becomes Preses o Ukraine.
- 2006 - Stephen Harper is electit Prime meenister o Canadae.
- 2012 − Cheenae new year an scheduled new muin.
- 2015 - Salman becomes King o Saudi Arabie.
- 2019 - Juan Guaidó declares hissel tae be Interim Preses o Venezuela.
- 2019 - Umwhile Peruvian Preses Alberto Fujimori is sent back tae gaol.
- 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Cheenese ceety o Wuhan, whaur the ootbrak stairtit, is placit unner lockdoon measures.
- 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Nepal, Singapore an Vietnam record their first COVID-19 cases.
Births
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- 1688 - Ulrika Eleonora, Queen o Swaden (d. 1741)
- 1783 - Stendhal, French novelist (d. 1812)
- 1832 - Édouard Manet, French penter (d. 1883)
- 1862 − David Hilbert, German mathemateician (d. 1943)
- 1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese theoretical pheesicist (d. 1981)
- 1920 - Gottfried Böhm, German airchitect
- 1924 - Frank Lautenberg, American politeecian (d. 2013)
- 1930 - Sir Derek Walcott, Saunt Lucian poet (d. 2017)
- 1930 - William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
- 1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (d. 2019)
- 1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 4t Preses o Indonesie
- 1949 - Tom Forsyth, Scots fitbawer (d. 2020)
- 1951 - Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot
- 1953 - Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukrainian politeecian
- 1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch fitbawer
- 1998 - XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
Daiths
- 1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher (b. 1668)
- 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norse penter (b. 1863)
- 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
- 2011 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (b. 1914)
- 2015 - Abdullah o Saudi Arabie (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Ernie Banks, American basebaw player an coach (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Barrie Ingham, Inglis actor (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914)
- 2020 - Robert Archibald, Scots basketbaw player (b. 1980)
- 2021 - Hal Holbrook, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2021 - Larry King, American actor, comedian an telly host (b. 1933)
Halidays
- Warld Freedom Day (Sooth Korea an Taiwan)
- Bounty Day (Pitcairn Islands)
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