SomeFacts | January 23

On this day - January 23

393 — Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son ...

971 — Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war ...

1229 — The episcopal seat is moved from Nousiainen to Koroinen ...

1264 — In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his ...

1368 — Zhu Yuanzhang proclaims himself the Hongwu Emperor, beginning ...

1546 — Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais ...

1556 — The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, ...

1565 — The Deccan Sultanates defeat Rama Raya of the Vijayanagara ...

1570 — James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King ...

1571 — The Royal Exchange opens in London.

1579 — The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the ...

1656 — Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.

1719 — The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy ...

1755 — Moscow University is established (12 January 1755 O.S.).

1789 — Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the ...

1793 — Second Partition of Poland.

1795 — After crossing the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry ...

1846 — Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.

1849 — Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical ...

1870 — In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly ...

1879 — Anglo-Zulu War: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.

1899 — The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the ...

1900 — Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of ...

1904 — Ålesund Fire: The Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated ...

1909 — RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes ...

1912 — The First International Opium Convention is signed at The ...

1919 — The First Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and ...

1920 — The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm ...

1922 — The first successful treatment with insulin is given to ...

1937 — The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen ...

1941 — Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and ...

1942 — World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's ...

1943 — World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture ...

1945 — World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation ...

1950 — The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

1957 — American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights ...

1958 — After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President ...

1960 — The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by ...

1963 — The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when ...

1964 — The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ...

1967 — Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in ...

1967 — Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast ...

1968 — USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by the Korean ...

1982 — World Airways Flight 30 overshoots the runway at Logan ...

1986 — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: ...

1987 — Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan sends a "letter of death" ...

1997 — Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United ...

1998 — Netscape announces Mozilla, with the intention to release ...

2001 — Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in ...

2002 — U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan ...

2003 — A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last ...

2018 — The China–United States trade war begins when President Donald ...

2018 — A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 ...

2018 — A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied ...

2022 — Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba ...

2024 — Northwestern Air Flight 738 crashes after takeoff from Fort ...