January 23rd, 1966

Born on January 23rd, 1966

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, 1966

58

Haywoode Workman

American basketball player and referee

*January 23rd, 1966, Charlotte

58

Claude Perron

French actress

*January 23rd, 1966, Nantes

58

Freda Akosua Prempeh

Ghanaian politician

*January 23rd, 1966, Duayaw Nkwanta

58

Randy Hopper

American politician

*January 23rd, 1966, Taylorville

58

John Heilemann

American journalist

*January 23rd, 1966, Los Angeles

58

Damien Hardman

Australian surfer

*January 23rd, 1966, Sydney

58

Vitaliy Savin

Kazakhstani sprinter

*January 23rd, 1966, Jezkazgan

58

John Massarelli

American baseball player

*January 23rd, 1966, Dover

58

Jamie Hoyland

British footballer (born 1966)

*January 23rd, 1966, Sheffield

58

Ivor Evans

Fijian footballer

*January 23rd, 1966, Labasa

58

Bernadette Bowyer

Field hockey player

*January 23rd, 1966, Brampton

58

Maria Guida

Italian athletics competitor

*January 23rd, 1966, Vico Equense

58

Scott Fortune

Former volleyball player

*January 23rd, 1966, Newport Beach

58

Osamu Miyazaki

Japanese motorcycle racer

*January 23rd, 1966, Yamaguchi

58

Hans Eskilsson

Swedish football player/manager, poker player

*January 23rd, 1966, Östersund

58

Lee McRae

American sprinter

*January 23rd, 1966, Pembroke

49

Oleg Sakirkin

Kazakh and Soviet triple jumper

*January 23rd, 1966, Shymkent †March 18th, 2015, Shymkent

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Who's birthday is on January 23rd?

43

Gong Ruina

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

37

Alexander Baumjohann

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1987, Waltrop

57

Magdalena Andersson

Prime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist

*January 23rd, 1967, Vaksala församling

62

David Arnold

British film composer

*January 23rd, 1962, Luton

59

Catherine Guillouard

French businesswoman (born 1965)

*January 23rd, 1965, Cannes

26

Wos

Argentine rapper, freestyler and actor

*January 23rd, 1998, Buenos Aires

54

Moreno Torricelli

Italian footballer and manager

*January 23rd, 1970, Erba

55

Stefano Zanini

Road bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1969, Varese

33

Alyssa Lim

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1991, Milton Keynes

32

Gennadiy Natarov

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1992, Kharkiv

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

72

Reinhard Saftig

German association football player and manager

*January 23rd, 1952, Uersfeld

79

Alexander Cunningham

British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)

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

62

Elvira Lindo

Spanish writer

*January 23rd, 1962, Cádiz

52

Jérôme Guedj

French politician

*January 23rd, 1972, Pantin

55

Jörgen Warborn

Politician and Member of the parliament of Sweden

*January 23rd, 1969, Varbergs

28

Rafiddias Akhdan Nugroho

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1996, Jakarta

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Born in 1966

57

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

57

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

57

Marcus Marin

German football player and manager

*December 13th, 1966, Hamburg

56

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter (1966–2023)

*December 8th, 1966, Glenageary †July 26th, 2023, London

57

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

*October 9th, 1966, Marylebone

57

Kiefer Sutherland

British-Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

57

Hwang Hye-young

South Korean badminton player

*July 16th, 1966, Jeungpyeong County

57

Olaf Thon

German association football player and manager

*May 1st, 1966, Gelsenkirchen

57

Lutz Heilmann

German politician

*September 7th, 1966, Zittau

58

Thomas Doll

German association football player and manager

*April 9th, 1966, Malchin

58

Olaf Marschall

German association football player and manager (1966–)

*March 19th, 1966, Torgau

57

Irina Serova

Badminton player

*May 14th, 1966, Soviet Union

58

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

57

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

58

Ludwig Kögl

German footballer

*March 7th, 1966, Penzberg

58

Catrin Striebeck

German actress

*April 18th, 1966, Vienna

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

57

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Danish composer

*July 2nd, 1966, Faxe

58

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

57

Rudy Gunawan

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1966, Surakarta City

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No: With 365 days 1966 is a normal year and no leap year.

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