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
- 393 –Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight year old son Honorius co-emperor.
- 971 –In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1870 –In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
- 1879 –Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke’s Drift ends.
- 1897 –Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
- 1899 –Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –“American Taliban” John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
- 2012 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
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