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

1960:The Trieste before its record dive

• 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 capital ceety.
• 1960 - The Bathyscaphe Trieste, wi Jacques Piccard an Don Ward dives 10,911 metres unner the Paceefic Ocean.
• 1973 - The Eldfell volcano on the Icelandic island o Heimaey erupts.
• 1973 - Richard Nixon announces peace accord wi Vietnam.
• 1997 - Madeleine Albright acomes the first female Unitit States Secretar o State.
• 2005 - Viktor Yushchenko is electit Preses o Ukraine.
• 2006 - Stephen Harper is electit Prime meenister o Canadae.
• 2012 − Cheenae new year an scheduled new muin

Births

Megawati Sukarnoputri

• 1688 - Ulrika Eleonora, Queen o Swaden (d. 1741)
• 1737 - John Hancock, American politeecian (d. 1793)
• 1783 - Stendhal, French novelist (d. 1812)
• 1832 - Edouard Manet, French penter (d. 1883)
• 1862 − David Hilbert, German mathemateician (d. 1943)
• 1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist (d. 1954)
• 1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indie naitionalist activist (d. 1945)
• 1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese theoretical pheesicist (d. 1981)
• 1924 - Frank Lautenberg, American politeecian (d. 2013)
• 1930 - Derek Walcott, Saunt Lucian poet
• 1930 - William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
• 1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
• 1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 4t Preses o Indonesie
• 1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
• 1951 - Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot
• 1953 - Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukrainian politeecian
• 1964 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress
• 1972 - Ewen Bremner, Scots actor
• 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, American sangster an producer
• 1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch fitbawer

Daiths

• 1002 - Otto III, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 980)
• 1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher (b. 1668)
• 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1756)
• 1883 - Gustave Doré, French airtist (b. 1832)
• 1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrick fitbawer (b. 1903)
• 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norse penter (b. 1863)
• 1989 - Salvador Dali, Spainyie penter (b. 1904)
• 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
• 2015 - Abdullah o Saudi Arabie (b. 1924)
• 2015 - Ernie Banks, American basebaw player an coach (b. 1931)
• 2015 - Barrie Ingham, Inglis actor (b. 1932)