23 january

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23 January is the 23rd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days to the end of the year (343 in the high year).

Events
393 C.E.
1482
The most deadly earthquake in history, in the province of Shensi, China, killed 820,000 people.
In 1558 the Russian troops attacked Livonia, which is the beginning of the Lebanese War, seeking control of Russia over the present territory of Estonia and Latvia.
In 1579 the University of Utrecht signed the foundation of the new Netherlands.
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College and became the first American doctor.
In 1899, Emilio Aquinaldo became the first president of the Philippines.
1904 The Law on the University, which transformed the Higher School in Sofia at the Bulgarian University of the University of Sofia, was adopted by Karlovo, Brothers Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi.
1928 "Professor Mihail Arnaudov raised the candidacy of the playwright Ivan Grozev for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
1943 - World War II: British troops managed to conquer Tripoli from Nazi Germany.
1950 "Jerusalem" was proclaimed the capital of the newly created state of Israel.
1953
1978
In 1997, Madeline Albright became the first woman to serve as US Secretary of State.
2001 - Seven people tried to set themselves on fire in Tiananman Square (China) on the eve of Chinese New Year, which many consider to be a production of the Chinese Communist Party in order to strengthen persecution against Falun Gong.
In a railway accident in Montenegro, not far from Podgorica, 40 passengers died.

Born

1688
1752, "Muccio Clementi, British musician of Italian origin († 1832)
1783 "Stendall, a French writer († 1842)
1794 "Edward Friedrich Eversmann, German zoologist († 1860)
1832
1840
1857
1862 "David Hilbert, German mathematician († 1943)
1876 "Otto Dills, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner in 1950 († 1954)
In 1891
1898
1900 -
1903
1905 "Constanti Ildephons Galchinsky, Polish poet († 1953)
1907 "Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize winner in 1949 († 1981)
1910