A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on January 23 throughout history.
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War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops forcing the Southern Han state to submit to the Song Dynasty. First regular war elephant corps in the Chinese army.
In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang, aged 40, ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that lasts for three centuries
The 1976 Tangshan earthquake was a Mw 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, China, at 19:42:55 UTC on 27 July (03:42:55, 28 July local time).
The Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem, known to Israelis as the reunification of Jerusalem, refers to the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War, and its…
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, due to their harmful effect on the earth's ozone layer
China locks down the city of Wuhan and its 9 million people in a belated but ultimately successful effort to control the city's COVID-19 outbreak
Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
Inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Chuck Berry; James Brown; Ray Charles; Sam Cooke; Fats Domino; The Everly Brothers; Buddy Holly; Jerry Lee Lewis; Elvis Presley; Little Richard; Robert Johnson; Jimmie Rodgers; Jimmy Yancey; Alan Freed; John Hammond; and Sam Phillips
LeBron James becomes the seventh and youngest player (33 years, 24 days) to reach the 30,000 NBA point milestone during a 114-102 loss to the San Antonio Spurs
Edward the Confessor, King of England (40), marries Edith, daughter of the Earl of Godwin
Composer Igor Stravinsky (23) weds Yekaterina Nosenko
Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier (48) weds Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus
Bulgarian Saint John of Rila [Saint Ivan] performs the miracle of the two pies - uses two pies to feed the poor
A parliament is a type of legislature, or law-making body, of a state. Generally, a parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the executive government...
First printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Regent of Scotland, the Earl of Moray, is assassinated, triggering a civil war
Union of Utrecht signed by Northern Habsburg counties of Holland and Zeeland, and provinces of Utrecht and Groningen, marking the beginning of protestant Dutch Republic
The Treaty of Fontainebleau (German: Vertrag von Fontainebleau) was signed on 30 May 1631 during the Thirty Years' War, at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco, Brazil
The Triple Alliance (Dutch: Triple Alliantie; Swedish: Trippelalliansen) was signed by the Kingdom of England, the Swedish Empire and the Dutch Republic in May 1668.
Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein, is a doubly landlocked country in the Central European Alps.
Niccolò Piccinni's tragédie lyrique opera "Iphigénie en Tauride" (Iphigeneia in Tauris) first performed by Académie royale de musique at the Paris Opéra
Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States.
Humane Society of Philadelphia is organized (first aid society)
Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of the Council of 500
7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
Joseph Pease becomes the first Quaker to be admitted to the UK Parliament on his affirmation
Uniform US election day for President & VP authorized
Tunisia becomes the first Arab nation to outlaw slavery in decree issued by Ahmed I Bey [1]
First bridge over the Mississippi River in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, opens; today known as the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge
American sidewheel steamer SS Pacific leaves Liverpool, England on what becomes her final voyage; lost at sea enroute to New York with 186 on board
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. Mauna Loa is Earth's largest active volcano by both mass and volume.
Agoston Haraszthy, the first vintner in Sonoma Valley, California, imports 10,000 grapevine cuttings
-Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, Virginia (James River, Trent's Reach)
Marias Massacre: Approximately 200 Piegan Blackfeet Indians (mostly women, children, and elderly men) killed by US Army, in Montana Territory, spawning outrage and preventing the military from regaining control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs [1] [2]
US National Archery Association forms in Crawfordsville, Indiana
G. W. Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min
Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E premieres
Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
First radio rescue at sea using the CQD distress code by the British Royal Mail steamship Republic off Nantucket Island
The First International Opium Convention (also called 1912 Opium Convention or Hague Opium Convention) is a former international treaty signed at The Hague in 1912.
Temperature falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning, Montana
Dutch refuse to turn over ex-Emperor William II of Germany to allies
Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer and telescope maker, best known for discovering Pluto in 1930, marking the first detection of what would...
El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office.
New York Rangers' left wing Murray Murdoch plays his 400th straight NHL game in a 5-2 win over Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden, NYC; streak reaches 508 consecutive games
Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
1st mass killing of Jews in Romania during three days of riots, between 115 and 130 people are murdered
The Battle of Rabaul, also known by the Japanese as Operation R, an instigating action of the New Guinea campaign, was fought on the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea,...
The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.
Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers with an NHL record 37 points; also record consecutive goals & most lopsided game, 15-0
Dutch Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, exiled in London, tenders his resignation
Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg win
The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis.
Equal longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games, 16 wins, 2 ties
Express train travelling from York to Bristol derails, killing 14 and injuring many other passengers
Indian nationalist V. K. Krishna Menon begins the longest ever speech defending India's stand on Kashmir at the UN - 8 hours over 2 days
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez (25 April 1914 – 20 September 2001) was a Venezuelan military officer and the dictator of Venezuela from 1950 to 1958, ruling as member of the military junta from...
US Navy bathyscaphe "Trieste", crewed by Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard and USN Lieutenant Don Walsh, becomes first manned vessel to reach bottom of Pacific Ocean (10,916 m) in the Mariana Trench; craft was designed by Auguste Piccard, father of the pilot, in 1953 for the French Navy [1]
US Supreme Court rules cities and states have the right to censor films
24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class technical research ship, placed into service during World War II, then converted to a spy ship in 1967 by the United States Navy.
Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
-80°F (-62°C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record)
Boeing 707, operated by Alia Royal Jordanian and chartered by Nigeria Airways crashes while trying to land at Kano International Airport in Nigeria, killing 176 Muslim pilgrims and crew
1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
"Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
World Series Cricket (WSC) was a commercial professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 which was organised by Kerry Packer and his Australian television network, Nine Network.
$1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date)
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other...
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. The Sabres compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern...
Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
Bob Benoit is a retired professional bowler in the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), who was active in the 1980s and 1990s.
s feared dead after a powerful earthquake strikes the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan
Bagogwe Massacre of Tutsi in and around Ruhengeri, Northern Rwanda
Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 61
Worldwide Day for Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Java is a high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language.
Denver Nuggets tie the NBA single-season record of 23 consecutive losses set by the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995-96; streak ends with a 99-81 win the next day against the LA Clippers
Dallas' Don Nelson becomes the 6th coach in NBA history to win 900 career games when the Mavericks defeat the Detroit Pistons, 99-91 at The Palace of Auburn Hills
Cave-in at coal mine leads to two methane gas explosions, kills 13 miners in Brookwood, Alabama
"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody
Final communication between Earth and NASA space probe Pioneer 10 then 7.6 billion miles (12.23 billion kilometers) from Earth
On 23 January 2009, a stabbing attack took place at Het Fabeltjesland daycare centre in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, East Flanders, Belgium.
European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program
18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria
New record for most expensive US property, $238 million for penthouse condominium overlooking Central Park, NY, bought by hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin
75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp marked by an international forum in Jerusalem, Israel
Buffalo wide receiver Gabriel Davis scores an NFL playoff record 4 TDs in the Bills' epic 42-36 overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in their divisional-round playoff at Arrowhead Stadium
American Richard Barnett, who was pictured with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk during the Jan 6 riots, convicted on eight counts in a Washington court [1]
John Lee Ratcliffe is an American politician and attorney who has served as the ninth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since 2025.
Sanae Takaichi (高市 早苗, Takaichi Sanae; born 7 March 1961) is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025.
John Hancock founding father, known for american founding father, was born on 1737-01-23. John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S.
Edouard Manet, French painter, known for french painter, was born on 1832-01-23. Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter.
Antonio Gramsci, Italian albanian-italian marxist philosopher, writer, and politician, known for albanian-italian marxist philosopher, writer, and politician, was born on 1891-01-23.
Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, known for american biochemist and pharmacologist, was born on 1918-01-23.
John Polanyi, Canadian chemist, known for canadian chemist, was born on 1930-01-23. John Charles Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist.
Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot and diplomat, known for american pilot and diplomat, was born on 1952-01-23.
Mariska Hargitay, American actress and producer, known for american actress and producer, was born on 1965-01-23.
Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician, known for romani-french jazz musician, was born on 1910-01-23.
XXXTentacion, American musician, known for american rapper and singer-songwriter, was born on 1998-01-23.
Adrian Quist, Australian athlete, known for australian tennis player, was born on 1913-01-23. Adrian Karl Quist (23 January 1913 – 17 November 1991) was an Australian tennis player..
Yani Tseng, Chinese athlete, known for taiwanese professional golfer, was born on 1990-01-23. Yani Tseng is a Taiwanese professional golfer playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.
Arnoldo Aleman is born
Pavlo Lazarenko is born
Ferdinand II of Aragon dies
William Pitt the Younger, British statesman, known for british statesman, died on 1806-01-23.
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter, known for norwegian painter, died on 1944-01-23. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter.
Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist, known for spanish surrealist artist, died on 1989-01-23.
Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host, known for american comedian and television host, died on 2005-01-23.
Bulgarian Saint John of Rila [Saint Ivan] performs the miracle of the two pies - uses two pies to feed the poor
War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops forcing the Southern Han state to submit to the Song Dynasty. First regular war elephant corps in the Chinese army.
Edward the Confessor, King of England (40), marries Edith, daughter of the Earl of Godwin
A parliament is a type of legislature, or law-making body, of a state. Generally, a parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the executive government...
In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang, aged 40, ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that lasts for three centuries
First printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
Ferdinand II of Aragon dies
Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel
The 1976 Tangshan earthquake was a Mw 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, China, at 19:42:55 UTC on 27 July (03:42:55, 28 July local time).
The Regent of Scotland, the Earl of Moray, is assassinated, triggering a civil war
Union of Utrecht signed by Northern Habsburg counties of Holland and Zeeland, and provinces of Utrecht and Groningen, marking the beginning of protestant Dutch Republic
The Treaty of Fontainebleau (German: Vertrag von Fontainebleau) was signed on 30 May 1631 during the Thirty Years' War, at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco, Brazil
The Triple Alliance (Dutch: Triple Alliantie; Swedish: Trippelalliansen) was signed by the Kingdom of England, the Swedish Empire and the Dutch Republic in May 1668.
Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein, is a doubly landlocked country in the Central European Alps.
John Hancock founding father, known for american founding father, was born on 1737-01-23. John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S.
Niccolò Piccinni's tragédie lyrique opera "Iphigénie en Tauride" (Iphigeneia in Tauris) first performed by Académie royale de musique at the Paris Opéra
Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States.
Humane Society of Philadelphia is organized (first aid society)
Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of the Council of 500
William Pitt the Younger, British statesman, known for british statesman, died on 1806-01-23.
7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
Edouard Manet, French painter, known for french painter, was born on 1832-01-23. Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter.
Joseph Pease becomes the first Quaker to be admitted to the UK Parliament on his affirmation
Uniform US election day for President & VP authorized
Tunisia becomes the first Arab nation to outlaw slavery in decree issued by Ahmed I Bey [1]
First bridge over the Mississippi River in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, opens; today known as the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge
American sidewheel steamer SS Pacific leaves Liverpool, England on what becomes her final voyage; lost at sea enroute to New York with 186 on board
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. Mauna Loa is Earth's largest active volcano by both mass and volume.
Agoston Haraszthy, the first vintner in Sonoma Valley, California, imports 10,000 grapevine cuttings
-Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, Virginia (James River, Trent's Reach)
Marias Massacre: Approximately 200 Piegan Blackfeet Indians (mostly women, children, and elderly men) killed by US Army, in Montana Territory, spawning outrage and preventing the military from regaining control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs [1] [2]
US National Archery Association forms in Crawfordsville, Indiana
Antonio Gramsci, Italian albanian-italian marxist philosopher, writer, and politician, known for albanian-italian marxist philosopher, writer, and politician, was born on 1891-01-23.
G. W. Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min
Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E premieres
Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
Composer Igor Stravinsky (23) weds Yekaterina Nosenko
First radio rescue at sea using the CQD distress code by the British Royal Mail steamship Republic off Nantucket Island
Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician, known for romani-french jazz musician, was born on 1910-01-23.
The First International Opium Convention (also called 1912 Opium Convention or Hague Opium Convention) is a former international treaty signed at The Hague in 1912.
Adrian Quist, Australian athlete, known for australian tennis player, was born on 1913-01-23. Adrian Karl Quist (23 January 1913 – 17 November 1991) was an Australian tennis player..
Temperature falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning, Montana
Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, known for american biochemist and pharmacologist, was born on 1918-01-23.
Dutch refuse to turn over ex-Emperor William II of Germany to allies
Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer and telescope maker, best known for discovering Pluto in 1930, marking the first detection of what would...
John Polanyi, Canadian chemist, known for canadian chemist, was born on 1930-01-23. John Charles Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist.
El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office.
New York Rangers' left wing Murray Murdoch plays his 400th straight NHL game in a 5-2 win over Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden, NYC; streak reaches 508 consecutive games
Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
1st mass killing of Jews in Romania during three days of riots, between 115 and 130 people are murdered
The Battle of Rabaul, also known by the Japanese as Operation R, an instigating action of the New Guinea campaign, was fought on the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea,...
The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.
Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers with an NHL record 37 points; also record consecutive goals & most lopsided game, 15-0
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter, known for norwegian painter, died on 1944-01-23. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter.
Dutch Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, exiled in London, tenders his resignation
Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
Arnoldo Aleman is born
The Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem, known to Israelis as the reunification of Jerusalem, refers to the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War, and its…
3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg win
Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot and diplomat, known for american pilot and diplomat, was born on 1952-01-23.
The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis.
Pavlo Lazarenko is born
Equal longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games, 16 wins, 2 ties
Express train travelling from York to Bristol derails, killing 14 and injuring many other passengers
Indian nationalist V. K. Krishna Menon begins the longest ever speech defending India's stand on Kashmir at the UN - 8 hours over 2 days
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez (25 April 1914 – 20 September 2001) was a Venezuelan military officer and the dictator of Venezuela from 1950 to 1958, ruling as member of the military junta from...
US Navy bathyscaphe "Trieste", crewed by Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard and USN Lieutenant Don Walsh, becomes first manned vessel to reach bottom of Pacific Ocean (10,916 m) in the Mariana Trench; craft was designed by Auguste Piccard, father of the pilot, in 1953 for the French Navy [1]
US Supreme Court rules cities and states have the right to censor films
24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
Mariska Hargitay, American actress and producer, known for american actress and producer, was born on 1965-01-23.
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class technical research ship, placed into service during World War II, then converted to a spy ship in 1967 by the United States Navy.
Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
-80°F (-62°C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record)
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
Boeing 707, operated by Alia Royal Jordanian and chartered by Nigeria Airways crashes while trying to land at Kano International Airport in Nigeria, killing 176 Muslim pilgrims and crew
1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
"Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier (48) weds Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus
World Series Cricket (WSC) was a commercial professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 which was organised by Kerry Packer and his Australian television network, Nine Network.
Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
$1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, due to their harmful effect on the earth's ozone layer
Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date)
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other...
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. The Sabres compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern...
Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
Inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Chuck Berry; James Brown; Ray Charles; Sam Cooke; Fats Domino; The Everly Brothers; Buddy Holly; Jerry Lee Lewis; Elvis Presley; Little Richard; Robert Johnson; Jimmie Rodgers; Jimmy Yancey; Alan Freed; John Hammond; and Sam Phillips
Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
Bob Benoit is a retired professional bowler in the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), who was active in the 1980s and 1990s.
s feared dead after a powerful earthquake strikes the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan
Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist, known for spanish surrealist artist, died on 1989-01-23.
Yani Tseng, Chinese athlete, known for taiwanese professional golfer, was born on 1990-01-23. Yani Tseng is a Taiwanese professional golfer playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.
Bagogwe Massacre of Tutsi in and around Ruhengeri, Northern Rwanda
Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 61
Worldwide Day for Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Java is a high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language.
Denver Nuggets tie the NBA single-season record of 23 consecutive losses set by the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995-96; streak ends with a 99-81 win the next day against the LA Clippers
XXXTentacion, American musician, known for american rapper and singer-songwriter, was born on 1998-01-23.
Dallas' Don Nelson becomes the 6th coach in NBA history to win 900 career games when the Mavericks defeat the Detroit Pistons, 99-91 at The Palace of Auburn Hills
Cave-in at coal mine leads to two methane gas explosions, kills 13 miners in Brookwood, Alabama
"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody
Final communication between Earth and NASA space probe Pioneer 10 then 7.6 billion miles (12.23 billion kilometers) from Earth
Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host, known for american comedian and television host, died on 2005-01-23.
On 23 January 2009, a stabbing attack took place at Het Fabeltjesland daycare centre in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, East Flanders, Belgium.
European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program
18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria
LeBron James becomes the seventh and youngest player (33 years, 24 days) to reach the 30,000 NBA point milestone during a 114-102 loss to the San Antonio Spurs
New record for most expensive US property, $238 million for penthouse condominium overlooking Central Park, NY, bought by hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin
China locks down the city of Wuhan and its 9 million people in a belated but ultimately successful effort to control the city's COVID-19 outbreak
75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp marked by an international forum in Jerusalem, Israel
Buffalo wide receiver Gabriel Davis scores an NFL playoff record 4 TDs in the Bills' epic 42-36 overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in their divisional-round playoff at Arrowhead Stadium
American Richard Barnett, who was pictured with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk during the Jan 6 riots, convicted on eight counts in a Washington court [1]
John Lee Ratcliffe is an American politician and attorney who has served as the ninth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since 2025.
Sanae Takaichi (高市 早苗, Takaichi Sanae; born 7 March 1961) is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025.