01-23-2005, 07:29 AM
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January 23rd
1556 ~ The Shaanxi earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occured with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China. 830,000 people may have been killed.
1832 ~ Birthday of Edouard Manet, Impressionist artist.
1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
1857 ~ Birthday of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician.
1943 ~ World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeated the Japanese army in Papua.
1973 ~ U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1981 ~ Death of Samuel Barber, American composer.
1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist.
2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.
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