About January 23
January 23, 2022 is the 23rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 9 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 23
3102 BCE –
Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight year old son Honorius co-emperor.
Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
New Year's Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
Dendermonde nursery attack in Dendermonde, Belgium.
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