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National Handwriting Day
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Pitcairn Island: Bounty Day
(Celebration of the burning of the HMS Bounty by Pitcairn ancestors: 01/23/1790)
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1911 |
Charles Parlin Graves (Florida-born Children's Author) |
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1948 |
Katharine Holabird (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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1950 |
Susan Mathias Smith (Virginia-born Children's Author) |
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1783 |
Stendhal (French Novelist of The Red and the Black) |
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1923 |
Walter M. Miller (Florida-born Science Fiction Author of Canticle for Leibowitz) |
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1930 |
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia-born 1992 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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1832 |
Édouard Manet (French Artist) |
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1967 |
Belkis Ayón (Cuban Artist) |
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1862 |
David Hilbert (German Mathematician) |
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1907 |
Hediki Yukawa (Japanese-born 1949 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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1915 |
William Arthur Lewis (St. Lucia-born African-American 1979 Nobel Laureate for Economics) |
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1918 |
Gertrude Belle Elion (New York City-born 1988 Nobel Laureate for Medicine) |
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1730 |
Joseph Hewes (New Jersey-born Signer of Declaration of Independence) |
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1765 |
Thomas Todd (Virginia-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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1837 |
Amanda Berry Smith (Maryland-born African-American Evangelist) |
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1915 |
Potter Stewart (Michigan-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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1957 |
Princess Caroline of Monaco |
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1898 |
Sergei Eisenstein (Latvian Filmmaker) |
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1910 |
Django Reinhardt (Belgian Jazz Guitarist) |
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1919 |
Ernie Kovacs (New Jersey Comedic Actor) |
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1928 |
Jeanne Moreau (French Performing Artist) |
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1933 |
Chita Rivera (Washington, D.C. Latin American Dancer, Actress) |
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1943 |
Gary Burton (Indiana-born Grammy Winning Jazz Musician) |
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Gil Gerard (Arkansas-born Actor) |
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1964 |
Mariska Hargitay (California-born Actress) |
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1936 |
Jerry Kramer (Montana-born Professional Football Player, Author of Instant Replay) |
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1944 |
Sergei Belov (Russian Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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1893 |
Phillips Brooks (Massachusetts-born Hymnist: "O Little Town of Bethlehem") |
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Lucius Q.C. Lamar (Georgia-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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1944 |
Edvard Munch (Norwegian Painter) |
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1957 |
Edward Bulwar Cochems (Wisconsin-born Football Coach Who Pioneered the Forward Pass) |
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1976 |
Paul Robeson (New Jersey-born African-American Football Player, Singer, Actor, Rights Activist) |
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Milton Reynolds (Minnesota-born Developer of a Ball-Point Pen) |
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1981 |
Samuel Barber (Pennsylvania-born Composer) |
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1989 |
Salvador Dali (Spanish Surrealist Painter) |
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1993 |
Thomas Dorsey (Georgia-born African-American "Father of Modern Black Gospel Music") |
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2005 |
Johnny Carson (Iowa-born Television Talk Show Host) |
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1556 |
Deadliest Earthquake in Recorded World History Kills 830,000 in China |
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1579
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Dutch Provinces Sign Union of Utrecht Creating the Netherlands
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1594
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William Shakespeare's First Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Is First Performed
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1691 |
Domingo Terán de los Ríos Is Appointed First Governor of Texas |
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1719 |
Prince Hans-Adam I Unites Territories of Schellenberg and Vaduz into Imperial Principality of Liechtenstein |
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1775 |
London Merchants Petition the British Parliament for Reconciliation with America |
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1789 |
Georgetown University, First U.S. Catholic College, Is Established |
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1790 |
Mutineers Burn and Sink the HMS Bounty at Pitcairn Island |
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1806 |
Lewis:
This morning dispatched Howard and Warner to the Camp of the Saltmakes for a supply of salt.
The men of the garison are still busily employed in dressing Elk's skins for cloathing, they find great difficulty for the want of branes;
Animal brains were employed in tanning leather; it is to this that Lewis refers, rather than to any lack of intelligence on the part of the men.
we have not soap to supply the deficiency, nor can we procure ashes to make the lye; none of the pines which we use for fuel affords any ashes; extrawdinary as it may seem, the greene wood is consoomed without leaving the residium of a particle of ashes.—
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1812 |
7.6 Earthquake Hits New Madrid, Missouri, Causing Mississippi River to Flow Backward |
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1831 |
West Point Cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, Refuses Order to Attend Church |
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1834 |
Ground Broken for U.S. Customs House on Wall Street |
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1837 |
U.S. Army Troops Kill Seminole Indian Leader Osuche and His son Near Lake Apopka, FL |
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1841 |
Abraham Lincoln Writes "I am now the most miserable man living." |
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1845 |
U.S. Congress Sets November Date for Presidential Elections |
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1849 |
Elizabeth Blackwell Receives Medical Degree to Become First U.S. Female Physician |
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1851 |
State of Florida Appropriates $1,000 to Build Wagon Road from Miami to Indian River |
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Portland Is the Second City in Oregon to be Incorporated |
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1853 |
Abraham Lincoln Attends Temperance Lecture by Rev. James Smith |
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David Denny and Louisa Boren Are the First Persons Wed with a County Marriage License in King County, Washington |
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1854 |
In Pike County, Indiana, the Village of Glezen Is Laid Out by Stephen R. Hosmer |
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1855 |
Earthquake Hits Wellington, New Zealand |
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Snowdrifts Close Railroad Traffic through Springfield, Illinois |
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A Cable Suspension Bridge Between Minneapolis and Nicollet Island Opens as the First Permanent Span over the Main Channel of the Mississippi River |
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1856 |
Count Agoston Haraszthy, "Father of California Viticulture," Imports 100,000 Grape Cuttings of Different Varieties to California |
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1857 |
Earthquake Hits Volosko, Croatia |
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Centerville, Iowa Is Incorporated |
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1861 |
Confederate Garrisons in Florida Shut Down the St. Augustine and Jupiter Inlet Lighthouses |
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All Georgia Congressmen Resign from the U.S. House of Representatives |
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Georgia's Governor Demands Federal Troops to Abandon the Arsenal in Augusta |
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1862 |
President Abraham Lincoln Concludes the Government Cannot Return Fugitive Slaves |
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President & Mrs. Lincoln Attend the Opera Il Trovatore at the Washington Theater |
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1863 |
General Hood Removed As Commander of Army of Tennessee |
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Confederates Hang Former Texas Senator in Fort Smith, Arkansas |
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Louisa May Alcott Returns Home from Duty as a Civil War Nurse |
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1864 |
President Lincoln Expresses Support for Plantations That Will Hire Former Slaves as Paid Laborers |
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1865 |
Federal Tender Fox Captures British Blockade Runner Fannie McRae in Florida's Warrior River |
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President Lincoln Spends Day Reviewing Court-martial Cases and Military Arrests |
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The Privately-Held First National Bank of Minneapolis Commences Business with a Capital of $50,000 |
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1866 |
Walt Whitman Suffers a Stroke |
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1870 |
U.S. Cavalry Unit Massacres Village of 173 Blackfoot Indians |
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1879 |
British Soldiers Defend Their Rorke's Drift Outpost Against Attack by 3,000 Zulu Warriors |
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National Archery Association Is Chartered at a Convention in Crawfordsville, Indiana |
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1880 |
Aftershocks from Earthquake in Cuba Are Felt in Key West, Florida |
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1891 |
Chicago's Provident Hospital, America's First Integrated Hospital, Is Incorporated |
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1896 |
Wilhelm Röntgen Gives First Public Demonstration of X-rays |
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1903 |
West Virginia Legislature Adopts the Rhododendron as the State Flower
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1906 |
August Kopff Discovers Asteroid 582 Olympia
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1907 |
Charles Curtis Is First Native American Elected to Serve in U.S Senate |
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1909 |
7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 5,500 in Iran |
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1911 |
Novelist David Graham Phillips Is Fatally Wounded |
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1917 |
The Society of Friends Sponsors a Meeting in Wilmington, Delaware to Promote the Disbanding of the State's Whipping Post |
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1918 |
First American Military Balloon Ascension Takes Place at Cuperly, Marne, France |
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1920 |
The Netherlands Refuses to Extradite Kaiser Wilhelm to the Allies |
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1922 |
Toronto General Hospital Administers First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes |
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1923 |
Aztec Ruins National Monument Opens in New Mexico |
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1930 |
George Washington Birthplace National Monument Is Established |
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1933 |
20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Is Ratified |
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1935 |
One Inch of Snow Is Reported in Panama City, Florida |
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1937 |
Leon Trotsky and 17 Others Stand Trial for Plot to Overthrow Stalin |
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1941 |
Lindbergh Urges U.S. to Negotiate Neutrality Agreement with Hitler |
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NASA's Glenn Aircraft Engine Research Center Opens in Cleveland, OH
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Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Record "Moonglow" |
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1943 |
Duke Ellington Plays Carnegie Hall for the First Time |
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"Casablanca" Is Copyrighted |
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1950 |
Israel's Knesset Establishes Jerusalem as the Country's Capital |
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1955 |
14 Die When British Express Train Is Derailed |
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1959 |
Robert Noyce Records His First Description of an Integrated Circuit
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1960 |
U.S. Navy Bathyscaphe Trieste 1 Descends 35,820 ft into the Pacific Ocean |
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1962 |
Jackie Robinson & Bob Feller Are Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
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1964 |
24th Amendment to the Constitution, Barring Poll Taxes, Is Ratified |
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Production Begins of $5 United States Notes Bearing the Motto "In God We Trust" |
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Dr. James Hardy Performs the First Human Heart Transplant at U. Mississippi Medical Center |
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1966 |
Earthquake Hits Near Dulce, New Mexico |
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1968 |
North Korea Seizes the USS Pueblo |
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Joe Medwick Is Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
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1969 |
The U.S. Senate Confirms Alaska's Walter J. Hickel as the Secretary of the Interior by a Vote of 73 to 16. |
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A Blizzard Dumps 16" of Snow on Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota |
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1970 |
NASA Launches ITOS 1 US Weather Satellite |
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1971 |
Prospect Creek, Alaska Records Lowest U.S. Temperature Ever (-80F) |
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1973 |
President Nixon Announces Vietnam Peace Agreement Reached in Paris |
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1975 |
"Barney Miller" Premieres on ABC Television
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Ralph Kiner Is Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
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1977 |
ABC Begins Broadcasting Roots Mini-series |
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1979 |
Willie Mays Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
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1981 |
6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 150 in China's Sichuan Province |
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1983 |
Bjorn Borg Retires from Tennis
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1985 |
First Televised Debate from Britain's House of Lords
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O.J. Simpson, Roger Staubach and Joe Namath Are Elected to Pro Football's Hall of Fame |

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1986 |
Eight Musicians/Groups Inducted in the First Annual Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony |
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NASA Researchers Discover Uranus Moon Bianca
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1989 |
Earthquake Kills 25,000 in Tajikistan |
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1992 |
Hal Roach Awarded Smithsonian Institution's Highest Honor
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1997 |
Madeline Albright Is Sworn in as America's First Female Secretary of State |
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