Section: Not a single day without an event #January_23 #Holidays Bounty Day (Pitcairn Island) National Pie Day (United States of America) Birth anniversary of Indian freedom fighter Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose, the founder of Indian National Army Events 1789 - Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C. 1849 - English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y. 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 #Stalins Great Purge. 1950 - The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel. 1962 - Tony Bennett recorded I Left My Heart in San Francisco in New York for Columbia Records. 1964 - The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified. 1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship the USS Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nations territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was held for 11 months. 1977 - The TV mini-series Roots, based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC. 1989 - Surrealist painter #Salvador #Dali died in his native Spain at age 84. 1991 - Allied forces in the #Persian #Gulf War announced that they had achieved air superiority after some 12,000 sorties. 1997 - A judge in Fairfax, Va., sentenced a Pakistani man to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two people and wounded three. 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.) 2005 - Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson died at age 79. Historic Birthdays John Hancock 1/23/1737 (N.S.) - 10/8/1793 (American Revolutionary statesman) Stendhal 1/23/1783 - 3/23/1842 (#French writer) Camilla Collett 1/23/1813 - 3/6/1895 (#Norwegian novelist/feminist) Edouard Manet 1/23/1832 - 4/30/1883 (#French Impressionist painter) David Hilbert 1/23/1862 - 2/14/1943 (#German mathematician) Sergius 1/23/1867 - 5/15/1944 (Russian Patriarch of Moscow) Herbert D. Croly 1/23/1869 - 5/17/1930 (American Founder of New Republic) #Ralph_De_Palma 1/23/1884 - 3/31/1956 (American race car driver) #Potter_Stewart 1/23/1915 - 12/7/1985 (United States Associate Supreme Court Justice) #Gertrude_Belle_Elion 1/23/1918 - 2/21/1999 (#American pharmacologist)
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