January 23rd, 1972

Born on January 23rd, 1972

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 19,000 days old!

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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, 1972

52

Jérôme Guedj

French politician

*January 23rd, 1972, Pantin

52

Ewen Bremner

Scottish actor

*January 23rd, 1972, Edinburgh

52

Gavin Barwell

British politician (born 1972)

*January 23rd, 1972, Cuckfield

52

Vanessa Yeung

Hong Kong actor and model

*January 23rd, 1972, Shanghai

52

Léa Drucker

French actress

*January 23rd, 1972, Caen

52

Marcel Wouda

Dutch swimmer

*January 23rd, 1972, Tilburg

52

Sami El-Sheshini

Egyptian footballer

*January 23rd, 1972, Egypt

52

Kez McCorvey

American football player

*January 23rd, 1972, Gautier

52

Gary Harrell

American football player and coach

*January 23rd, 1972, Miami

52

Lisa Snowdon

British model

*January 23rd, 1972, Welwyn Garden City

52

Anushavan Sahakyan

Olympic wrestler

*January 23rd, 1972, Yerevan

52

Robert Stadelmann

Austrian Nordic combined skier

*January 23rd, 1972, Marburg

52

Anthony Peterson

American football player

*January 23rd, 1972, Cleveland

52

Tanya Harding

Australian softball player

*January 23rd, 1972, Brisbane

52

Marcelo de Melo

Brazilian artist

*January 23rd, 1972, Apucarana

52

Uchū Tatsumi

Japanese martial artist

*January 23rd, 1972, Yokohama

43

Dmitry Shumkov

Russian businessman (1972-2015)

*January 23rd, 1972, Sarapul †December 4th, 2015, Moscow

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43

Gong Ruina

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

37

Alexander Baumjohann

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1987, Waltrop

54

Moreno Torricelli

Italian footballer and manager

*January 23rd, 1970, Erba

26

Wos

Argentine rapper, freestyler and actor

*January 23rd, 1998, Buenos Aires

33

Alyssa Lim

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1991, Milton Keynes

32

Gennadiy Natarov

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1992, Kharkiv

40

Arjen Robben

Dutch association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Bedum

55

Stefano Zanini

Road bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1969, Varese

29

Linda Efler

German badminton player

*January 23rd, 1995, Emsdetten

30

Ou Xuanyi

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1994, Fujian

27

Cheam June Wei

Malaysian badminton player

*January 23rd, 1997, Penang

43

Julia Jones

American actress

*January 23rd, 1981, Boston

62

David Arnold

British film composer

*January 23rd, 1962, Luton

28

Rafiddias Akhdan Nugroho

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1996, Jakarta

79

Alexander Cunningham

British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)

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

55

Jörgen Warborn

Politician and Member of the parliament of Sweden

*January 23rd, 1969, Varbergs

72

Reinhard Saftig

German association football player and manager

*January 23rd, 1952, Uersfeld

57

Magdalena Andersson

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

*January 23rd, 1967, Vaksala församling

45

Benjamín Noval

Road bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1979, Mieres

48

Marsha de Cordova

British politician (born 1976)

*January 23rd, 1976, Bristol

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Born in 1972

51

Stephen Barclay

British politician

*May 3rd, 1972, Lytham St Annes

51

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

47

Ari Behn

Norwegian author and artist (1972-2019)

*September 30th, 1972, Aarhus †December 25th, 2019, Lommedalen

52

Roland Møller

Danish actor

*March 20th, 1972, Odense

51

Bang Soo-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 13th, 1972, Seoul

52

Heryanto Arbi

Indonesian badminton player

*January 21st, 1972, Kota Kudus

51

Zinedine Zidane

French football manager and former player

*June 23rd, 1972, Marseille

51

Dwayne Johnson

American actor and professional wrestler

*May 2nd, 1972, Hayward

51

Joanne Goode

English badminton player

*November 17th, 1972, Harlow

51

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

52

Milaine Cloutier

Canadian badminton player

*February 16th, 1972, Granby

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

51

Chris Leslie

British politician (born 1972)

*June 28th, 1972, Keighley

51

Anniken Hauglie

Conservative Norwegian politician

*September 10th, 1972, Oslo

51

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer

*September 27th, 1972, Los Angeles

51

Steffen Wöller

German luger

*September 10th, 1972, Erfurt

51

Johann von Bülow

German actor

*September 26th, 1972, Munich

51

Jude Law

English actor

*December 29th, 1972, Lewisham

51

Josh Duhamel

American actor

*November 14th, 1972, Minot

52

Ong Ewe Hock

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1972, Penang

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Leap year

Yes: 1972 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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