January 23rd, 1985

Born on January 23rd, 1985

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, 1985

39

Claudia Belderbos

Dutch rower

*January 23rd, 1985, Doorn

39

Doutzen Kroes

Dutch fashion model

*January 23rd, 1985, Eastermar

39

Dong Fangzhuo

Chinese footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Dalian

39

San E

South Korean rapper

*January 23rd, 1985, Bupyeong District

39

Yevgeny Lukyanenko

Russian pole vaulter

*January 23rd, 1985, Slavyansk-na-Kubani

39

Jeff Samardzija

American baseball pitcher and football player

*January 23rd, 1985, Merrillville

39

Draya Michele

American television personality, model and fashion designer

*January 23rd, 1985, Reading

39

Mekenna Melvin

American actress

*January 23rd, 1985, Saratoga

39

Niki Mäenpää

Finnish association football player

*January 23rd, 1985, Espoo

39

Antwaun Molden

Player of American football

*January 23rd, 1985, Warren

39

Arnaud Héguy

French rugby union footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Bayonne

39

Zhang Qingpeng

Chinese basketball player

*January 23rd, 1985, Fushun

39

Camilla Alfieri

Italian alpine skier

*January 23rd, 1985, Genoa

39

Patricia Schmid

Swiss model

*January 23rd, 1985, Colônia Tovar

39

Donnie Klang

American singer

*January 23rd, 1985, Brooklyn

39

José Romero Jiménez

Spanish footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Zalamea la Real

39

Curtiss King

Rapper

*January 23rd, 1985, Bellflower

39

Ramil Khayrulin

Russian film producer, filmmaker, political analyst

*January 23rd, 1985, Moscow

39

Kalle Lassila

Finnish cross-country skier

*January 23rd, 1985, Veteli

39

Werner Kruger

South African rugby union footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Kempton Park

39

Wang Hongyou

Chinese footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Dalian

39

Ron Glick

Israeli footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Branford

39

Ridhwan Jamaludin

Singaporean footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Singapore

39

Nick Thornicroft

English county cricketer (born 1985)

*January 23rd, 1985, York

39

Meng Fei

Chinese male ice dancer

*January 23rd, 1985, Harbin

39

Matty Robson

Professional footballer (born 1985)

*January 23rd, 1985, Spennymoor

39

Guy Moussi

French and Cameroonian footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Bondy

39

Evhen Apryshko

Ukrainian footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Khrestivka

39

Dylan Hughes

Welsh footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Vancouver

39

Bryan Ewing

American ice hockey player

*January 23rd, 1985, Wheeling

39

Elena Medved

Russian association football player

*January 23rd, 1985, Moscow

39

Philippe Seydoux

Professional ice hockey player from Switzerland

*January 23rd, 1985, Bern

39

Paul Diggin

English rugby union player

*January 23rd, 1985, Northampton

39

Marcin Juszczyk

Polish footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Kraków

39

Tre Kelley

American basketball player

*January 23rd, 1985, Washington, D.C.

39

Kazuki Yoshino

Association football player

*January 23rd, 1985, Kawagoe

39

Rok Božič

Association football player

*January 23rd, 1985, Izola

39

Thiago Ribeiro da Silva

Brazilian footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Rio de Janeiro

39

Jamie Tardif

Canadian ice hockey player

*January 23rd, 1985, Welland

39

Mario Bilen

Croatian footballer

*January 23rd, 1985, Vinkovci

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Who's birthday is on January 23rd?

37

Alexander Baumjohann

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1987, Waltrop

43

Gong Ruina

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

40

Arjen Robben

Dutch association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Bedum

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

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

43

Julia Jones

American actress

*January 23rd, 1981, Boston

28

Rafiddias Akhdan Nugroho

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1996, Jakarta

38

Benjamin Giraud

French bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1986, Marseille

72

Heinrich Brunn

German classical archaeologist (1822-1894)

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

79

Alexander Cunningham

British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)

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

35

Danielle Montalbano

Pair skater

*January 23rd, 1989, Manhasset

34

Carina Bär

German rower

*January 23rd, 1990, Heilbronn

32

Keegan Messing

Canadian-American figure skater

*January 23rd, 1992, Girdwood

45

Benjamín Noval

Road bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1979, Mieres

62

David Arnold

British film composer

*January 23rd, 1962, Luton

54

Moreno Torricelli

Italian footballer and manager

*January 23rd, 1970, Erba

Same year
Born in 1985

39

Virgil Soeroredjo

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1985, Paramaribo

33

Nipsey Hussle

American rapper (1985–2019)

*August 15th, 1985, Crenshaw †March 31st, 2019, Los Angeles

39

Ville Lång

Finnish badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lahti

39

Eriko Hirose

Japanese badminton player

*March 16th, 1985, Inagawa

39

Karin Schnaase

German badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lüdinghausen

39

Koen Ridder

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1985, Haarlem

38

Bonez MC

German rapper

*December 23rd, 1985, Hamburg

39

Mitchel Wongsodikromo

Badminton player

*August 26th, 1985, Paramaribo

39

Senidah

Slovenian singer-songwriter (born 1985)

*April 9th, 1985, Ljubljana

36

Young Dolph

American rapper (1985–2021)

*March 5th, 1985, Chicago †November 17th, 2021, Memphis

39

Maria Kristin Yulianti

Indonesian badminton player

*June 25th, 1985, Tuban

39

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese association football player

*February 5th, 1985, Funchal

39

Salomon Kalou

Ivorian association football player

*August 5th, 1985, Oumé

39

The Quiett

South Korean rapper

*January 29th, 1985, Gwangmyeong

39

Pablo Abián

Spanish badminton player

*June 12th, 1985, Calatayud

39

Andreas Ottl

German footballer

*March 1st, 1985, Munich

39

Willem Viljoen

Badminton player

*March 5th, 1985, Bloemfontein

39

Thilini Jayasinghe

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1985, Peradeniya

39

Simon Santoso

Badminton player

*July 29th, 1985, Tegal

39

Oxxxymiron

Russian rapper

*January 31st, 1985, Saint Petersburg

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Born on January 23rd, 1985
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1985 is a normal year and no leap year.

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