Historical Events In January - 23

1903  On this day in history the birth of Randolph Scott, American film actor  

1904  Ã…lesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ã…lesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style on this day in history.  

1904  On January - 23 theodor Schaefer, composer  

1905  David Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves) on January - 23.  

1906  On January - 23 bob Steele, Pendleton Oregon, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)  

1907  Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American US senator on January - 23.  

1907  Charles Curtis, the first Native American to become a U.S. senator, begins serving his term. (Twenty-two years later, Curtis resigned to become Vice President of the U.S. with President Herbert Hoover's administration.) on January - 23.  

1907  Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator on this day in history.  

1907  On this day in history dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)  

1908  US &Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo on this day in history.  

1908  US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo on January - 23.  

1908  Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist on this day in history.  

1908  Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47 on January - 23.  

1909  The first radio rescue at sea on January - 23.  

1909  1st radio rescue at sea on January - 23.  

1909  Norman Fulton, composer on this day in history.  

1910  On this day in history django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist  

1911  Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer on this day in history.  

1912  The Aermore Manufacturing Company, a Chicago concern, received a patent for the Aermore Exhaust Horn, a multiple-pipe horn powered by engine exhaust that played a chord like a church organ on January - 23.  

1912  On this day in history the International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.  

1912  On January - 23 ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy)  

1913  On this day in history nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated  

1914  Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne on January - 23.  

1915  Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948) on January - 23.  

1916  Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT on January - 23.  

1916  Temp falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning MT on January - 23.  

1918  On this day in history stellarton, Nova Scotia a coal gas explosion kills eighty-eight men in the Allan Shaft at Stellarton  

1918  On January - 23 gertrude Belle Elion, NYC, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)  

1919  Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool on this day in history.  

1920  Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies on January - 23.  

1920  Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies on this day in history.  

1920  On this day in history erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka)  

1921  Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83 on January - 23.  

1922  At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes on January - 23.  

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1350  Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419) was born on this day in history.  

1574  On this day in history birth of lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter  

1582  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)  

1688  On this day in history birth of queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)  

1719  John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790) was born on January - 23.  

1730  Joseph Hewes, US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer) was born on January - 23.  

1745  On this day in history birth of william Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)  

1752  On this day in history birth of muzio Clementi, Italian composer  

1002  Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21 on this day in history.  

1199  On this day in history death of yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)  

1356  On this day in history margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies  

1516  On January - 23 ferdinand II, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63  

1548  On January - 23 bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57  

1549  On January - 23 death of johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)  

1567  On January - 23 death of jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)  

1622  On this day in history william Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38