23 Januar

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 
 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 
 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)

Category:Days o the year
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