WillDekkard
01-23-2010, 06:08 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- January 23rd
* 393 Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine 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.
* 1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
* 1510 Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
* 1533 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
* 1546 Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
* 1556 The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
* 1570 The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
* 1571 The Royal Exchange opens in London.
* 1579 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
* 1656 Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
* 1719 The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1789 Georgetown College, the first Roman Catholic college in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
* 1793 Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
* 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
* 1855 The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
* 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 Εlesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Εlesund 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.
* 1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
* 1920 The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
* 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.
* 1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
* 1943 World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
* 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 Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
* 1943 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
* 1945 World War II: Karl Dφnitz launches Operation Hannibal.
* 1950 The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
* 1958 Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pιrez Jimιnez
* 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 offially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
* 1964 The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
* 1967 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
* 1968 North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
* 1973 President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
* 1973 A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
* 1985 O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
* 1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
* 1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
* 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.
* 2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
* 2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and is subsequently murdered .
* 2003 Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10
* 2009 Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.
- January 23rd
* 393 Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine 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.
* 1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
* 1510 Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
* 1533 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
* 1546 Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
* 1556 The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
* 1570 The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
* 1571 The Royal Exchange opens in London.
* 1579 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
* 1656 Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
* 1719 The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1789 Georgetown College, the first Roman Catholic college in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
* 1793 Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
* 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
* 1855 The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
* 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 Εlesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Εlesund 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.
* 1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
* 1920 The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
* 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.
* 1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
* 1943 World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
* 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 Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
* 1943 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
* 1945 World War II: Karl Dφnitz launches Operation Hannibal.
* 1950 The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
* 1958 Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pιrez Jimιnez
* 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 offially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
* 1964 The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
* 1967 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
* 1968 North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
* 1973 President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
* 1973 A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
* 1985 O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
* 1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
* 1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
* 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.
* 2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
* 2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and is subsequently murdered .
* 2003 Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10
* 2009 Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.