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
- 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.
- 1579 –The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
- 1719 –The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1849 –Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor.
- 1879 –Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke’s Drift ends.
- 1900 –The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat.
- 1907 –Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
- 1920 –The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
- 1943 –Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: Troops of Montgomery’s 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
- 1958 –Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pérez Jiménez
- 1960 –The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1963 –Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
- 1973 –A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
- 1974 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 2002 –Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
- 2003 –Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
- 2009 –Dendermonde nursery attack in Dendermonde, Belgium.
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