
January 23 is the 23nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days left until the end of the year (343 in leap years).
Events
- 1556 – The Shaanxi Earthquake with the highest death toll in history occurs in Shaanxi Province, China: approximately 830.000 people killed.
- 1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
- 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to earn a medical degree.
- 1870 - In Montana, the United States military kills 173 Indians, mostly women and children.
- 1913 – Bâb-ı Âli Raid: The Kamil Pasha government was overthrown by the members of the Committee of Union and Progress. With the coup known as the Bâb-ı Âli Raid, the Grand Vizier was resigned and Mahmut Şevket Pasha was replaced.
- 1922 – Two streets in Istanbul were named Pierre Loti and Klodfarer.
- 1925 – The Government of Chile is overthrown in a military coup.
- 1932 - Staff magazine was started to be published by Şevket Süreyya Aydemir and his friends.
- 1941 – The XNUMXst Turkish Cartoon Exhibition was opened in Istanbul.
- 1954 – Adanaspor was founded.
- 1957 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly accepted the establishment of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
- 1959 – The lawsuit against the founders of the Vatan Party started. Hikmet Kıvılcımlı and 47 people were accused of making communist propaganda. The prosecutor demanded prison sentences of 5 to 15 years for the defendants.
- 1960 – Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and American naval lieutenant Don Walsh set a new submarine record by descending into the Challenger trench (depth: 10.915 m) in the Trieste batiskapi.
- 1961 – Pheasant Osman, who became famous for fraud, was caught gambling in Zeytinburnu.
- 1968 – The United States Pueblo intelligence ship is captured in North Korea. The crew was arrested on charges of espionage.
- 1971 – Pensioners occupied the Pension Fund building in Ankara.
- 1972 – Istanbul Martial Law Command imposed a curfew and carried out Operation Storm-1. 84.855 buildings and 268.810 flats were searched by 510.000 soldiers.
- 1973 – The decades-long war in Vietnam ends with a peace agreement signed in Paris between representatives of the United States, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong. The agreement stipulated the withdrawal of all US troops from Vietnam and the self-determination of the people of South Vietnam.
- 1974 - Israeli troops begin to withdraw from the west of the Suez Canal.
- 1975 – Trabzonspor won the Cyprus Peace Cup, which has only been held once in history, to raise the morale of the Turks in the country during the Cyprus Operation.
- 1977 – TV mini-series based on the novel by Alex Haley Roots, was released in the United States.
- 1983 – The 12th execution of the September 29 Coup: Ali Aktaş (Ağtaş), a communist militant who shot a gun in front of the house in order to bring out a right-wing man, who was sleeping with his wife and children, on the night of 9 June 1980, and shot and killed the person he was waiting for, was executed.
- 1983 – The 12th execution of the September 30 Coup: Duran Bircan, who killed his own mother and his nephew, whom he coveted, was executed.
- 1986 – The “Video and Cinema Works Law” was accepted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The law re-regulates the rights to reproduce, distribute and broadcast video, cinema and musical works.
- 1989 – An earthquake occurred in Tajikistan; Over 1000 people died.
- 1990 - The Red Army leaves Hungary after 41 years.
- 1994 – President Süleyman Demirel said, “We must be prepared for the phenomenon of the Kurdish State”.
- 1995 - Mail ve Yeni Şafak newspapers began their publication life.
- 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the United States' first female Secretary of State.
- 2005 – Viktor Yushchenko took office as President of Ukraine.
- 2006 – Kartal Chief Public Prosecutor's Office prepared a new deadline for Mehmet Ali Ağca and decided to release him on January 18, 2010.
- 2006 – At least 15 people were killed and 48 injured when a passenger train derailed near the village of Bioce, 198 kilometers northeast of the Capital Podgorica, in Serbia-Montenegro.
- 2006 – Eight Ministry of Foreign Affairs personnel died in an accident on the Istanbul Road in Ankara.
- 2007 – Hrant Dink was buried in Istanbul. Opened at the funeral We are all Hrant ve We are all Armenians printed banners caused controversy.
- 2007 – The direction of Bolu Mountain Tunnel, whose construction started 16 years ago and cost approximately 1 billion dollars, was opened by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
- 2008 – Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis made a historic visit to Turkey. Karamanlis, the first Greek Prime Minister to visit Turkey after 49 years, said that the main goal is to fully harmonize Turkish-Greek relations.
- 2008 – Prof. Dr. Ayşe Işıl Karakaş was elected as Turkey's new judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
- 2012 – The French Senate approved a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian claims regarding the events of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
Births
- 1688 – Ulrika Eleonora, queen of Sweden (d. 1741)
- 1729 – Pierre Darcourt, Belgian first long-lived person before 1955 (d. 1837)
- 1737 – John Hancock, American merchant and statesman (d. 1793)
- 1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
- 1783 – Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French man of letters (famous for his novels The Red and the Black and the Parma Abbey) (d. 1842)
- 1794 – Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, German biologist and explorer (d. 1860)
- 1814 – Alexander Cunningham, English archaeologist and army engineer (d. 1893)
- 1828 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai, soldier, and politician (d. 1877)
- 1830 – Ivan Lariоnоv, Russian composer and folklorist (d. 1889)
- 1832 – Édouard Manet, French painter (one of the pioneers of the transition from realism to impressionism) (d. 1883)
- 1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and industrialist (d. 1905)
- 1852 – Edmond Demolins, French social historian (d. 1907)
- 1855 – John Moses Browning, American gun designer (d. 1926)
- 1862 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
- 1872 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
- 1876 – Otto Diels, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1954)
- 1878 – Rutland Boughton, British opera and western classical composer, conductor, and music festival organizer (d. 1960)
- 1884 – Hermann Nunberg, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1970)
- 1897 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician (d. 1945)
- 1898 – Randolph Scott, American actor and director (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
- 1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz guitarist and composer (d. 1953)
- 1920 – Gottfried Böhm, German architect
- 1921 – Berna Moran, Turkish writer (d. 1993)
- 1923 – Horace Ashenfelter, American athlete (d. 2018)
- 1929 – İhsan Yüce, Turkish theater and cinema artist (d. 1991)
- 1933 – Gülten Akın, Turkish poet and writer (d. 2015)
- 1934 – Jeanette Bonnier, Swedish journalist, author, and media executive (d. 2016)
- 1935 – Mike Agostini, track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2016)
- 1940 – Dinç Bilgin, Turkish journalist, businessman and media magnate
- 1940 – Musa Arafat, Palestinian statesman (d. 2005)
- 1942 – Süha Arın, Turkish academic and documentary director (d. 2004)
- 1942 – Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, Mongolian politician and 13. President of Mongolia (d. 2025)
- 1943 – Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player, businessman and President of Galatasaray (d. 2010)
- 1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (d. 2019)
- 1948 – Anita Pointer, American singer (d. 2022)
- 1967 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter (d. 2017)
- 1967 – Hafiz Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter
- 1974 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
- 1974 – Anne Marivin, French actress
- 1975 – Marcio Santos, Brazilian football player
- 1977 – Tuna Beklevic, Turkish politician
- 1983 - Adam Mosseri, current head of Instagram and former Facebook executive
- 1984 – Arjen Robben, Dutch football player
- 1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
- 1988 – Esin Iris, Turkish singer, songwriter, composer and performer
- 1990 – Şener Özbayraklı, Turkish football player
- 1993
- Iván Díaz, Argentinian footballer
- Ryota Oshima, Japanese national football player
- 1996 – Kemal Ademi, German football player
- 1998 – XXXTentacion, American rapper, singer and songwriter
Deaths
- 1002 – III. Otto, Holy Roman emperor (b. 980)
- 1199 – Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Almohad caliph between 1184-1199 (b. 1160)
- 1252 – Zabel, queen of Cilician Armenia from 1219-1252 (b. 1217)
- 1516 – Fernando II, King of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1567 – Jiajing, 11th emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China (b. 1507)
- 1622 – William Baffin, English navigator (b. 1584)
- 1744 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
- 1803 – Arthur Guinness, Irish businessman (b. 1725)
- 1805 – Claude Chappe, French scientist (b. 1763)
- 1806 – William Pitt, youngest prime minister in UK history (b. 1759)
- 1875 – Charles Kingsley, English writer (b. 1819)
- 1883 – Gustave Doré, French master of print and engraving (b. 1832)
- 1889 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (b. 1823)
- 1903 – Niko Dadiani I, last prince of Megrelia (b. 1847)
- 1905 – Seven Eight Hasan Pasha, Ottoman Pasha (b. 1831)
- 1913 – Nâzım Pasha, Ottoman Minister of War (b. 1848)
- 1924 – Ali Emiri, Turkish researcher and biographer (b. 1857)
- 1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
- 1939 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian football player (b. 1903)
- 1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (Scream (b. 1863), known for his painting
- 1945 – Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, German lawyer (b. 1907)
- 1945 – Mehmet Rifat Arkun, Turkish politician (b. 1872)
- 1946 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (b. 1862)
- 1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director and producer (b. 1893)
- 1962 – Natalya Sedova, second wife of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (b. 1882)
- 1963 – Baki Vandemir, Turkish soldier (b. 1890)
- 1973 – Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist and bandleader (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and black rights activist (b. 1898)
- 1986 – Mehmet Kaplan, Turkish literary historian (b. 1915)
- 1989 – Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter (b. 1904)
- 1991 – Ole Peder Arvesen, Norwegian engineer and mathematician (b. 1895)
- 1995 – Elmira Huseynova, Soviet Azerbaijani sculptor and painter (b. 1933)
- 2002 – Pierre-Felix Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
- 2002 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
- 2005 – Johnny Carson, American comedian and broadcaster (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Savaş Akova, Turkish cinema and theater actor (b. 1948)
- 2014 – Violetta Ferrari, Hungarian actress (b. 1930)
- 2015 – Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Ernie Banks, legendary American professional baseball player (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Prosper Ego, Dutch activist and writer (b. 1927)
- 2015 – Barrie Ingham, English actress (b. 1932)
- 2016 – Nikolay Abramov, Russian writer, poet, journalist and translator (b. 1961)
- 2016 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish-English rock musician (b. 1947)
- 2016 – Barry Brickell, New Zealand pottery artist (b. 1935)
- 2016 – Josip Friščić, Croatian politician (b. 1949)
- 2017 – Bimba Bosé, Spanish model, singer and actress (b. 1975)
- 2017 – Dmitro Hrabovski, Ukrainian cyclist (b. 1985)
- 2017 – Gorden Kaye, English actor (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Boško Krunić, Yugoslav communist politician (b. 1929)
- 2017 – Ruth Samuelson, American Republican Party politician, parliamentarian (b. 1959)
- 2018 – Anders Åberg, Swedish sculptor, painter and cartoonist (b. 1945)
- 2018 – Mohammed al-Mufarreh, Saudi Arabian actor, writer, director and producer (b. 1945)
- 2018 – Nicanor Parra, mathematician and poet (b. 1914)
- 2018 – Ezra Swerdlow, American film producer (b. 1954)
- 2018 – Lari White, American country music artist and actress (b. 1965)
- 2019 – Richard Bodycombe, American former senior military officer (b. 1922)
- 2019 – Jack Thomas Brinkley, American politician, educator, and lawyer (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Dick Dolman, Dutch politician (b. 1935)
- 2019 – Ayşen Gruda, Turkish theater, TV series and film actress (b. 1944)
- 2019 – Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist (b. 1922)
- 2019 – Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist (b. 1952)
- 2019 – Norman Orentreich, American dermatologist and cosmetologist (b. 1922)
- 2019 – Erik Olin Wright, American analytical Marxist sociologist, educator, author, and philosopher (b. 1947)
- 2020 – Robert Archibald, British professional basketball player (b. 1980)
- 2020 – Frederick Ballantyne, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines politician (b. 1936)
- 2020 – Robert Harper, American actor (b. 1951)
- 2020 – Alfred Korner, Austrian international football player (b. 1926)
- 2020 – Jim Lehrer, American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1934)
- 2020 – Gudrun Pausewang, German writer and educator (b. 1928)
- 2021 – Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and filmmaker (b. 1919)
- 2021 – Hal Holbrook, Academy Award nominee, Emmy and Tony Award winner, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2021 – Larry King, American television and radio host (b. 1933)
- 2021 – Martha Madrigal, Mexican poet and short story writer (b. 1929)
- 2021 – Sumiko Sakamoto, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1936)
- 2021 – Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (b. 1994)
- 2022 – Barbara Krafftówna, Polish actress (b. 1928)
- 2022 – Ketevan Losaberidze, Soviet/Georgian former archer (b. 1949)
- 2022 – Thierry Mugler, French fashion designer and photographer (b. 1948)