Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 23
This is a list of selected January 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| 1579 – The Union of Utrecht was signed, unifying the northern provinces in the Low Countries which later formed the Dutch Republic. | Stubby, unreferenced |
| 1656 – Under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte, French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal published the first of his Lettres provinciales, attacking the Jesuits and their use of casuistic reasoning. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1912 – Twelve nations signed the International Opium Convention, the first international drug control treaty, to regulate the production and distribution of opiates. | short |
| 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sold the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee". | unreferenced section |
| 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, inducted its first members, including Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley. | {{refimprove section}} |
| 2006 – After 12 years of Liberal Party's rule, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party won the most seats in the Canadian federal election. | {{unreferenced section}}, {{refimprove section}} |
Eligible
- 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I (likeness pictured) proclaimed his nine-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
- 1368 – Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
- 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history killed about 830,000 people in Shaanxi Province, China.
- 1789 – Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would be the home of the future Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in the United States.
- 1793 – The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time.
- 1899 – Pursuant to the adoption of the Malolos Constitution and the establishment of the First Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo was sworn in as the first President of the Philippines.
- 1968 – USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.
- 2001 – Five people attempted to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claimed was staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
- 2002 – American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later murdered by Al Qaeda agents.
January 23: Lunar New Year (Chinese calendar, 2012)
- 3102 BCE – According to Hindu scriptures, Kali Yuga, the last of the four stages that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, began.
- 1570 – James Hamilton shot and killed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, in the first recorded assassination using a firearm.
- 1719 – Emperor Charles VI established Liechtenstein, the only principality in the Holy Roman Empire still remaining today.
- 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell (pictured) received her M.D. from Geneva Medical College in New York, making her the first female physician in the United States and the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school.
- 1960 – The bathyscaphe Trieste reached the record depth of 10,916 m (35,814 ft) in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench.