January 23rd, 1988

Born on January 23rd, 1988

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, 1988

36

Arnaud Anastassowa

French footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Forbach

36

Shaun Kenny-Dowall

New Zealand rugby league footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Waikato Region

36

Marc Sand

Association footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Villach

36

Wil Carter

American basketball player

*January 23rd, 1988, Pocatello

36

Jonathan Copete

Colombian footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Cali

36

Tobias Holmqvist

Swedish footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Lund

36

Nick Fairley

American football player

*January 23rd, 1988, Mobile

36

Alexandru Dandea

Romanian association football player

*January 23rd, 1988, Drăgășani

36

Daniel Ilabaca

British freerunner

*January 23rd, 1988, Moreton

36

T.J. Campbell

American basketball player

*January 23rd, 1988, Phoenix

36

Samson Idiata

Nigerian high and long jumper

*January 23rd, 1988, Ewu

36

Jamie Lovemark

Professional golfer

*January 23rd, 1988, Rancho Santa Fe

36

Bartosz Broniszewski

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Munich

36

Yong Vui Kong

Convicted drug trafficker sentenced to life imprisonment in Singapore

*January 23rd, 1988, Sandakan

36

Thanasis Kavallaris

Greek footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Amfilochia

36

Ricardo Hernández

Venezuelan baseball player

*January 23rd, 1988, Caracas

36

György Katona

Hungarian footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Mátészalka

36

Giorgi Khidesheli

Georgian footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Tbilisi

36

German Pyatnikov

Russian footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Saint Petersburg

36

Nikola Žižić

Croatian footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Split

36

Fulganco Cardozo

Footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Goa

36

Francisco Hércules de Araújo

Association football player

*January 23rd, 1988, Fortaleza

36

Andrei Dumitraș

Romanian footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Pomârla

36

Anvar Rajabov

Uzbekistani footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Kagan

36

Marko Šimić

Croatian football player

*January 23rd, 1988, Rijeka

36

Kamil Biliński

Polish footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Wrocław

36

Diego Benítez

Uruguayan association football player

*January 23rd, 1988, Rosario

36

Tegan Cunningham

Australian rules footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Melbourne

36

Aung Ko Latt

Burmese director, musician

*January 23rd, 1988, Yangon

36

Hill Kourkoutis

Musical artist

*January 23rd, 1988, Toronto

36

Konstantinos Banousis

Association football player

*January 23rd, 1988, Elassona

36

Gavin Brennan

Irish footballer

*January 23rd, 1988, Drogheda

36

Sangram Atitkar

Indian cricketer

*January 23rd, 1988, Kolhapur

36

A.J. Matthews

American martial artist

*January 23rd, 1988, San Diego

Same Day
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

33

Alyssa Lim

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1991, Milton Keynes

26

Wos

Argentine rapper, freestyler and actor

*January 23rd, 1998, Buenos Aires

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

40

Arjen Robben

Dutch association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Bedum

27

Cheam June Wei

Malaysian badminton player

*January 23rd, 1997, Penang

28

Rafiddias Akhdan Nugroho

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1996, Jakarta

35

Danielle Montalbano

Pair skater

*January 23rd, 1989, Manhasset

34

Carina Bär

German rower

*January 23rd, 1990, Heilbronn

43

Julia Jones

American actress

*January 23rd, 1981, Boston

32

Keegan Messing

Canadian-American figure skater

*January 23rd, 1992, Girdwood

39

Claudia Belderbos

Dutch rower

*January 23rd, 1985, Doorn

38

Benjamin Giraud

French bicycle racer

*January 23rd, 1986, Marseille

33

Hayley Anne Sacks

Figure skater

*January 23rd, 1991, New York City

79

Alexander Cunningham

British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)

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

30

Merhawi Kudus

Eritrean cyclist

*January 23rd, 1994, Asmara

32

Charlotte Aiken

English figure skater

*January 23rd, 1992, Plymouth

Same year
Born in 1988

35

Adele

British singer

*May 5th, 1988, Tottenham

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

35

Mizuki Fujii

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1988, Ashikita

35

Ma Jin

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

36

Chan Yun Lung

Badminton player

*February 29th, 1988, Hong Kong

35

Gzuz

German rapper

*June 29th, 1988, Hamburg

36

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

36

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Norwegian musician

*February 26th, 1988, Kongsberg Municipality

35

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

35

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

35

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Danish actress

*May 23rd, 1988, Copenhagen

35

Monika Lewczuk

Polish singer-songwriter and former model

*June 10th, 1988, Łomża

36

Gabi Tóth

Hungarian singer

*January 17th, 1988, Tapolca

35

Friðrik Dór

Icelandic singer

*October 7th, 1988, Hafnarfjörður

36

Marcel Schmelzer

German footballer

*January 22nd, 1988, Magdeburg

35

Lyna bonasera

Belgian actress

*May 17th, 1988, West Los Angeles

35

Savitree Amitrapai

Badminton player

*November 19th, 1988, Bangkok

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Leap year

Yes: 1988 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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