January 23rd, 1959

Born on January 23rd, 1959

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 23rd?

January 23rd, 2002

American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later murdered by al-Qaeda agents in Karachi, Pakistan.

January 23rd, 1997

Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time.

January 23rd, 1993

The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser.

January 23rd, 1968

USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.

January 23rd, 1967

The English new town of Milton Keynes was founded in Buckinghamshire, incorporating four towns and fifteen villages as well as planned new developments on intervening farmland.

January 23rd, 1957

American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee" (example pictured).

January 23rd, 1942

World War II: Japan began an invasion of the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.

January 23rd, 1915

Rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners, beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi.

January 23rd, 1909

Two men committed an armed robbery in Tottenham, London, and led police on a two-hour chase, partially by tram, that ended in the perpetrators' suicides.

January 23rd, 1902

In the most fatal recorded mountaineering accident, 199 of the 210 members of an Imperial Japanese Army unit perished in a blizzard on the Hakkōda Mountains.

January 23rd, 1870

American Indian Wars: The United States Army massacred a friendly band of Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory, resulting in about 200 deaths.

January 23rd, 1849

Elizabeth Blackwell (pictured) graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York, making her the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.

January 23rd, 1793

The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time.

January 23rd, 1789

Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would become the home of the future Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in the United States.

January 23rd, 1570

James Hamilton killed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, in the first recorded assassination of a head of government using a firearm.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 23rd

Born on January 23rd, 1959

65

Didier Bourdon

French actor and director

*January 23rd, 1959, Algiers

65

Luk Wyns

Belgian television director and actor

*January 23rd, 1959, Merksem

65

Amauri Ribeiro

Volleyball player

*January 23rd, 1959, São Paulo

65

Raimund Becker

German jurist

*January 23rd, 1959, Neunkirchen

65

Sergey Koplyakov

Swimmer

*January 23rd, 1959, Orsha

65

Lindsay Ashford

British writer

*January 23rd, 1959, Wolverhampton

65

Margaret M. Murnane

Irish physicist

*January 23rd, 1959, Limerick

65

András Bozóki

Hungarian politician

*January 23rd, 1959, Budapest

65

Takanomine Akihiko

Sumo wrestler

*January 23rd, 1959, Fukuoka Prefecture

65

Scott Pace

American academic

*January 23rd, 1959, Los Angeles

65

Eddison Roberts

English cricketer (born 1959)

*January 23rd, 1959, Antigua

65

Scott Thorson

American showman

*January 23rd, 1959, La Crosse

65

Lars Isovaara

Swedish politician

*January 23rd, 1959, Vittangi församling

65

Shawn Jasper

American politician

*January 23rd, 1959, Nashua

65

Christopher Nugee

British judge

*January 23rd, 1959, Sussex

65

Robert Funaro

American actor

*January 23rd, 1959, Brooklyn

62

Anna Elisha Mghwira

Tanzanian politician

*January 23rd, 1959, Mungumaji †July 22nd, 2021, Arusha

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62

David Arnold

British film composer

*January 23rd, 1962, Luton

43

Gong Ruina

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

66

Ieke Moerdijk

Dutch mathematician

*January 23rd, 1958, Veenendaal

37

Alexander Baumjohann

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1987, Waltrop

26

Wos

Argentine rapper, freestyler and actor

*January 23rd, 1998, Buenos Aires

72

Reinhard Saftig

German association football player and manager

*January 23rd, 1952, Uersfeld

62

Elvira Lindo

Spanish writer

*January 23rd, 1962, Cádiz

79

Alexander Cunningham

British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)

*January 23rd, 1814, London †November 28th, 1893, London

33

Alyssa Lim

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1991, Milton Keynes

32

Gennadiy Natarov

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1992, Kharkiv

77

Megawati Soekarnoputri

5th president of Indonesia (2001-2004) and 8th vice-president of Indonesia (1999-2001)

*January 23rd, 1947, Yogyakarta City

29

Linda Efler

German badminton player

*January 23rd, 1995, Emsdetten

27

Cheam June Wei

Malaysian badminton player

*January 23rd, 1997, Penang

30

Ou Xuanyi

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1994, Fujian

40

Arjen Robben

Dutch association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Bedum

28

Rafiddias Akhdan Nugroho

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1996, Jakarta

54

Moreno Torricelli

Italian footballer and manager

*January 23rd, 1970, Erba

67

Caroline, Princess of Hanover

Eldest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and Grace Kelly

*January 23rd, 1957, Prince's Palace of Monaco

66

Éric Métayer

French comedian, actor and theater director

*January 23rd, 1958, 15th arrondissement of Paris

91

Chita Rivera

American actress, dancer and singer (1933–2024)

*January 23rd, 1933, Washington, D.C. †January 30th, 2024, New York City

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64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

65

Hartmut Koschyk

German politician

*April 16th, 1959, Forchheim

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

65

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Michael Boddenberg

German politician

*July 15th, 1959, Troisdorf

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

65

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

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No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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