Historical Events In January - 23

1903  On January - 23 the birth of Randolph Scott, American film actor   

1904  Ã…lesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ã…lesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style on January - 23.   

1904  On January - 23 theodor Schaefer, composer   

1905  David Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves) on January - 23.   

1906  On this day in history bob Steele, Pendleton Oregon, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)   

1907  Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American US senator on January - 23.   

1907  On this day in history charles Curtis, the first Native American to become a U.S. senator, begins serving his term. (Twenty-two years later, Curtis resigned to become Vice President of the U.S. with President Herbert Hoover's administration.)   

1907  On this day in history charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator   

1907  On January - 23 dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)   

1908  US &Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo on this day in history.   

1908  US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo on this day in history.   

1908  Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist on this day in history.   

1908  Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47 on January - 23.   

1909  On this day in history the first radio rescue at sea   

1909  1st radio rescue at sea on January - 23.   

1909  Norman Fulton, composer on this day in history.   

1910  On January - 23 django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist   

1911  Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer on this day in history.   

1912  The Aermore Manufacturing Company, a Chicago concern, received a patent for the Aermore Exhaust Horn, a multiple-pipe horn powered by engine exhaust that played a chord like a church organ on this day in history.   

1912  On this day in history the International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.   

1912  Ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy) on this day in history.   

1913  On January - 23 nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated   

1914  Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne on this day in history.   

1915  Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948) on January - 23.   

1916  On this day in history temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT   

1916  Temp falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning MT on January - 23.   

1918  On January - 23 stellarton, Nova Scotia a coal gas explosion kills eighty-eight men in the Allan Shaft at Stellarton   

1918  Gertrude Belle Elion, NYC, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988) on this day in history.   

1919  Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool on this day in history.   

1920  On this day in history dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies   

1920  On January - 23 dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies   

1920  Erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka) on this day in history.   

1921  Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1922  At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes on January - 23.   

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1350  Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419) was born on January - 23.   

1574  On this day in history birth of lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter   

1582  John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis) was born on January - 23.   

1688  Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741) was born on January - 23.   

1719  On January - 23 birth of john Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)   

1730  On this day in history birth of joseph Hewes, US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)   

1745  William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814) was born on January - 23.   

1752  On January - 23 birth of muzio Clementi, Italian composer   

1002  On January - 23 otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21   

1199  Death of Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160) on this day in history.   

1356  On January - 23 margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies   

1516  Ferdinand II, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63 on January - 23.   

1548  On January - 23 bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57   

1549  Death of Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498) on January - 23.   

1567  On January - 23 death of jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)   

1622  William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 on this day in history.