January 23 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 23
In the headlines today:

2007		Former CIA operative and convicted Watergate co-conspirator, E. Howard Hunt, dies of pneumonia in Miami at age 79. (photo credit: Wiley)
2007	US citizens traveling by air between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda are required to present a valid passport.
2005		Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson dies at age 79. (photo credit: R2 Entertainment)
2003	Actress-singer Nell Carter, best known as Nell Harper in the TV series "Gimme a Break!", dies in her Beverly Hills home at age 54.
2000	Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas is severely injured when his SUV overturns on an icy road in Missouri. Thomas would succumb to his injuries 16 days later at age 33.
1999	Monica Lewinsky is ordered by a federal judge to submit to an interview in the impeachment trial of US president Bill Clinton.
1989	Surrealist painter Salvador Dali dies in Spain at age 84.
1979	Steve Wozniak is granted a US patent for his "Microcomputer For Use With Video Display" -- the Apple II computer.
1978	Terry Kath, guitarist for the rock group Chicago, dies of an accidental gunshot wound at age 31.
1975	The situation comedy Barney Miller, starring Hal Linden in the title role, debuts on ABC-TV.
1973		US president Richard Nixon announces the end of US involvement in Vietnam. (photo credit: NARA)
1968	The North Korean Navy seizes the US Navy ship Pueblo, detaining its crew on suspicion of espionage.
1950	The Israeli Knesset approves a resolution to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
1944	Norwegian artist Edvard Munch dies in his sleep at age 81.
1932	New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt announces his candidacy for US president on the Democratic party ticket.
1907	Charles Curtis, the first Native American to become a US senator, begins serving his term. (Twenty-two years later, Curtis would resign to become US Vice President under President Herbert Hoover.)
1849	Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the US to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree, granted to her by the Medical Institution of Geneva, NY.
1845	Congress agrees that all national elections in the US will fall on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
1789	Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the US, is established in what is now Washington, DC.