January 23
1368 - China's Ming dynasty, which lasted nearly three centuries, began as Zhu Yuanzhang was formally acclaimed emperor following the collapse of the Yuan dynasty.
1556 - The deadliest earthquake on record killed an estimated 830,000 people in Shanxi, China.
1789 - Georgetown University is established in what is now Washington, D.C.
1845 - Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female physician in the United States when she received her medica degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, New York.
1932 - New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1937 - Seventeen people went on trial in Moscow during Soviet leader Josef Stalin's Great Purge.
1950 - The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
1964 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, barring poll taxes, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to approve it.
1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, commanded by Lloyd “Pete” Bucher, charging its crew with being on a spying mission; one sailor was killed and 82 were taken prisoner. (Cmdr. Bucher and his crew were released the following December after enduring 11 months of brutal captivity at the hands of the North Koreans.)
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC.
1989 - Surrealist painter Salvador Dali died in Spain at age 84.
1991 - Allied forces in the Persian Gulf War announced that they had achieved air superiority after some 12,000 sorties.
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, died.
1997 - A judge in Fairfax, Virginia, sentenced a Pakistani man to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two people and wounded three.
1998 - Fighting scandal allegations involving Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton assured his Cabinet during a meeting that he was innocent and urged them to concentrate on their jobs.
2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan, by a group demanding the return of prisoners from the Afghan campaign. (He was later killed.)
2002 - John Walker Lindh, a U.S.-born Taliban fighter, was returned to the United States to face criminal charges that he’d conspired to kill fellow Americans. (Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing support for the Taliban; he was released in May 2019 after serving more than 17 years.)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, who played the television character "Captain Kangaroo," died at age 76.
2005 - Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson died at age 79.
2012 - In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval.
2017 - President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, using one of his first actions in office to reject a proposed accord that was eagerly sought by American allies in Asia.
2020 - Chinese state media said the city of Wuhan would be shutting down outbound flights and trains, trying to halt the spread of a new virus that had sickened hundreds of people and killed at least 17. The World Health Organization said the viral illness in China was not yet a global health emergency, though the head of the U.N. health agency added that 'it may yet become one."
2020 - In a second day of opening arguments at President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, Democratic prosecutors made the case that Trump had abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a "completely bogus" theory about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
2020 - PBS announced that Jim Lehrer, the longtime host of the nightly "NewsHour" and the moderator of 11 presidential debates, had died at the age of 85.
2021 - The U.S. reaffirmed its support for Taiwan following China’s dispatch of warplanes near the island.
2021 - Hal Holbrook, the actor who toured the world for more than 50 years as Mark Twain in a one-man show and appeared as “Deep Throat” in “All the President’s Men,” died at 95 in California. Larry King, known for decades of broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes, died at a Los Angeles hospital at 87. Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist, died at the age of 101.
Birthdays
21 - Ren Taylor (singer)
24 - Rachel Crow (actress/singer)
28 - Addison Russell (baseball player)
37 - Draya Michele (reality star)
37 - Doutzen Kroes (model)
41 - Shallon Lester (reality star)
42 - Lindsey Kraft (actress)
48 - Tiffani Thiessen (actress)
48 - Norah O'Donnell (news anchor)
51 - Marc Nelson (singer)
58 - Mariska Hargitay (actress)
59 - Gail O'Grady (actress)
60 - Boris McGiver (actor)
61 - Peter Mackenzie (actor)
64 - Anita Baker (singer)
65 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
69 - Robin Zander (singer)
72 - Richard Dean Anderson (actor)
74 - Anita Pointer (singer)
79 - Gil Gerard (actor)
89 - Chita Rivera (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 23
1944 - The Detroit Red Wings set record for the most goals, most consecutive goals and most points in a game. The Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 15-0 and had a total of 37 assists.
1950 - NFL owners approved the unlimited substitution rule that had been used on a trial basis for 1949 (two-platoon system).
1953 - The NFL's Dallas Texans relocate to and become the Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts).
1962 - Jackie Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1968 - Joe Medwick is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1975 - Ralph Kiner is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1979 - Willie Mays is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 - Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders becomes the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in 50 games.
1984 - Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden in New York City to win his first WWF world championship, kicking off the pop culture phenomenon of "Hulkamania".
1985 - O.J. Simpson became the first Heisman Trophy winner to be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1988 - At the Quaker State Open, Bob Benoit won a $100,000 bonus and became the first bowler to win a televised tournament by rolling a perfect 300 game.
1998 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scores in double figures in his 800th career NBA game.
2002 - The NHL fined Theo Fleury (New York Rangers) $1,000 for making an obscene gesture to fans after a game the night before.
2015 - Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors sets an NBA record for most points scored in a quarter with 37 and most 3-pointers in a quarter with nine in a 126-101 win over the Sacramento Kings.
2018 - LeBron James becomes the seventh player in NBA history to reach the 30,000 point milestone and the youngest in league history (33 years, 24 days).
1368 - China's Ming dynasty, which lasted nearly three centuries, began as Zhu Yuanzhang was formally acclaimed emperor following the collapse of the Yuan dynasty.
1556 - The deadliest earthquake on record killed an estimated 830,000 people in Shanxi, China.
1789 - Georgetown University is established in what is now Washington, D.C.
1845 - Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female physician in the United States when she received her medica degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, New York.
1932 - New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1937 - Seventeen people went on trial in Moscow during Soviet leader Josef Stalin's Great Purge.
1950 - The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
1964 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, barring poll taxes, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to approve it.
1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, commanded by Lloyd “Pete” Bucher, charging its crew with being on a spying mission; one sailor was killed and 82 were taken prisoner. (Cmdr. Bucher and his crew were released the following December after enduring 11 months of brutal captivity at the hands of the North Koreans.)
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC.
1989 - Surrealist painter Salvador Dali died in Spain at age 84.
1991 - Allied forces in the Persian Gulf War announced that they had achieved air superiority after some 12,000 sorties.
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, died.
1997 - A judge in Fairfax, Virginia, sentenced a Pakistani man to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two people and wounded three.
1998 - Fighting scandal allegations involving Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton assured his Cabinet during a meeting that he was innocent and urged them to concentrate on their jobs.
2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan, by a group demanding the return of prisoners from the Afghan campaign. (He was later killed.)
2002 - John Walker Lindh, a U.S.-born Taliban fighter, was returned to the United States to face criminal charges that he’d conspired to kill fellow Americans. (Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing support for the Taliban; he was released in May 2019 after serving more than 17 years.)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, who played the television character "Captain Kangaroo," died at age 76.
2005 - Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson died at age 79.
2012 - In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval.
2017 - President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, using one of his first actions in office to reject a proposed accord that was eagerly sought by American allies in Asia.
2020 - Chinese state media said the city of Wuhan would be shutting down outbound flights and trains, trying to halt the spread of a new virus that had sickened hundreds of people and killed at least 17. The World Health Organization said the viral illness in China was not yet a global health emergency, though the head of the U.N. health agency added that 'it may yet become one."
2020 - In a second day of opening arguments at President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, Democratic prosecutors made the case that Trump had abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a "completely bogus" theory about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
2020 - PBS announced that Jim Lehrer, the longtime host of the nightly "NewsHour" and the moderator of 11 presidential debates, had died at the age of 85.
2021 - The U.S. reaffirmed its support for Taiwan following China’s dispatch of warplanes near the island.
2021 - Hal Holbrook, the actor who toured the world for more than 50 years as Mark Twain in a one-man show and appeared as “Deep Throat” in “All the President’s Men,” died at 95 in California. Larry King, known for decades of broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes, died at a Los Angeles hospital at 87. Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist, died at the age of 101.
Birthdays
21 - Ren Taylor (singer)
24 - Rachel Crow (actress/singer)
28 - Addison Russell (baseball player)
37 - Draya Michele (reality star)
37 - Doutzen Kroes (model)
41 - Shallon Lester (reality star)
42 - Lindsey Kraft (actress)
48 - Tiffani Thiessen (actress)
48 - Norah O'Donnell (news anchor)
51 - Marc Nelson (singer)
58 - Mariska Hargitay (actress)
59 - Gail O'Grady (actress)
60 - Boris McGiver (actor)
61 - Peter Mackenzie (actor)
64 - Anita Baker (singer)
65 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
69 - Robin Zander (singer)
72 - Richard Dean Anderson (actor)
74 - Anita Pointer (singer)
79 - Gil Gerard (actor)
89 - Chita Rivera (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 23
1944 - The Detroit Red Wings set record for the most goals, most consecutive goals and most points in a game. The Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 15-0 and had a total of 37 assists.
1950 - NFL owners approved the unlimited substitution rule that had been used on a trial basis for 1949 (two-platoon system).
1953 - The NFL's Dallas Texans relocate to and become the Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts).
1962 - Jackie Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1968 - Joe Medwick is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1975 - Ralph Kiner is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1979 - Willie Mays is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 - Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders becomes the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in 50 games.
1984 - Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden in New York City to win his first WWF world championship, kicking off the pop culture phenomenon of "Hulkamania".
1985 - O.J. Simpson became the first Heisman Trophy winner to be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1988 - At the Quaker State Open, Bob Benoit won a $100,000 bonus and became the first bowler to win a televised tournament by rolling a perfect 300 game.
1998 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scores in double figures in his 800th career NBA game.
2002 - The NHL fined Theo Fleury (New York Rangers) $1,000 for making an obscene gesture to fans after a game the night before.
2015 - Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors sets an NBA record for most points scored in a quarter with 37 and most 3-pointers in a quarter with nine in a 126-101 win over the Sacramento Kings.
2018 - LeBron James becomes the seventh player in NBA history to reach the 30,000 point milestone and the youngest in league history (33 years, 24 days).
