January 23rd, 1984

Born on January 23rd, 1984

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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, 1984

40

Arjen Robben

Dutch association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Bedum

40

Federico Bessone

Argentine professional footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Córdoba

40

Robbie Farah

Australian rugby league footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, New South Wales

40

Preston Corbell

American stuntman and actor

*January 23rd, 1984, Dallas

40

Saif Samejo

Founder and lead vocalist of the Pakistani band The Sketches

*January 23rd, 1984, Khairpur

40

Anna Pálmai

Hungarian actress

*January 23rd, 1984, Budapest

40

Manuel Latusa

Austrian ice hockey player

*January 23rd, 1984, Vienna

40

Dragan Mrđa

Serbian footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Vršac

40

Ekaterina Rudakova

Belarusian cross-country skier

*January 23rd, 1984, Navapolack

40

Shahril Ishak

Singaporean footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Singapore

40

Nair Almeida

Angolan handball player

*January 23rd, 1984, Lobito

40

Volodimir Levin

Azerbaijani footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Arkhangelsk

40

Shinobu Ono

Japanese footballer (born 1984)

*January 23rd, 1984, Zama

40

Alfredo Juan Mayordomo

Spanish footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Aspe

40

Ludivine Henrion

Belgian racing cyclist

*January 23rd, 1984, Namur

40

Björn Lindemann

German football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Stadthagen

40

Jonas Sela

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Bergisch Gladbach

40

Thiago Campos Santos

Brazilian footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Rio de Janeiro

40

Samson Kiflemariam

Athletics competitor

*January 23rd, 1984, Maekel Region

40

Roman Goginashvili

Footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Gori

40

Rasul Kudayev

Russian amateur wrestler

*January 23rd, 1984, Kabardino-Balkaria

40

Keith Godding

Canadian football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Ajax

40

Francis Devaney

Irish hurler

*January 23rd, 1984, Toomyvara

40

César Taborda

Argentine footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Villa Constitución

40

Tomohiro Moriyama

Japanese basketball player and coach

*January 23rd, 1984, Kitakyushu

40

Pavel Houška

Czech basketball player

*January 23rd, 1984, Ústí nad Labem

40

Anthony Spencer

American football player (born 1984)

*January 23rd, 1984, Fort Wayne

40

Aleksandr Khromykov

Russian footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Timashyovsk

40

Valentin Ioviță

Romanian footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Galați

40

Sanja Knežević

Montenegrin basketball player

*January 23rd, 1984, Bijelo Polje

40

Tibert Pont

Footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Geneva

40

Monir Kalgoum

Swedish ice hockey player

*January 23rd, 1984, Huddinge Municipality

40

Abdelmalek Ziaya

Algerian association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Guelma

40

Günther Vanaudenaerde

Belgian footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Knokke-Heist

40

João Baldasserini

Brazilian actor

*January 23rd, 1984, São Paulo

40

Christian Preußer

German association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Berlin

40

Stéphane Besle

French footballer

*January 23rd, 1984, Haguenau

40

Masayoshi Miwa

Baseball player

*January 23rd, 1984, Shimonoseki

40

Đặng Khánh Lâm

Vietnamese association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Hải Dương

40

Craig Dobson

British footballer (born 1984)

*January 23rd, 1984, Chingford

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43

Gong Ruina

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

37

Alexander Baumjohann

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1987, Waltrop

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

39

Claudia Belderbos

Dutch rower

*January 23rd, 1985, Doorn

43

Julia Jones

American actress

*January 23rd, 1981, Boston

30

Ou Xuanyi

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1994, Fujian

29

Linda Efler

German badminton player

*January 23rd, 1995, Emsdetten

27

Cheam June Wei

Malaysian badminton player

*January 23rd, 1997, Penang

28

Rafiddias Akhdan Nugroho

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1996, Jakarta

72

Heinrich Brunn

German classical archaeologist (1822-1894)

*January 23rd, 1822, Wörlitz †July 23rd, 1894, Schliersee

38

Benjamin Giraud

French bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1986, Marseille

79

Alexander Cunningham

British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)

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

45

Benjamín Noval

Road bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1979, Mieres

34

Carina Bär

German rower

*January 23rd, 1990, Heilbronn

35

Danielle Montalbano

Pair skater

*January 23rd, 1989, Manhasset

62

David Arnold

British film composer

*January 23rd, 1962, Luton

32

Keegan Messing

Canadian-American figure skater

*January 23rd, 1992, Girdwood

54

Moreno Torricelli

Italian footballer and manager

*January 23rd, 1970, Erba

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Born in 1984

39

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

40

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

40

Duanganong Aroonkesorn

Thai badminton player

*February 6th, 1984, Bangkok

40

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer and songwriter

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

40

Jeremy Loops

South African singer, songwriter, and record producer

*March 4th, 1984, Kommetjie

40

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

40

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

39

French Montana

Moroccan-American rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

40

Patrícia Kimberly

Brazilian pornographic actress

*January 6th, 1984, São Paulo

40

Valeriy Atrashchenkov

Badminton player

*August 20th, 1984, Kharkiv

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

40

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

40

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

40

Ave Pajo

Estonian badminton and football player

*July 9th, 1984, Estonia

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Born on January 23rd, 1984
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Leap year

Yes: 1984 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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