Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 23

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• Blaise Pascal
  Blaise Pascal
• Coat of Arms of Liechtenstein
  Coat of Arms of Liechtenstein
• Emilio Aguinaldo
  Emilio Aguinaldo
• Madeleine Albright
  Madeleine Albright
• Viktor Yushchenko
  Viktor Yushchenko
• USS Pueblo
  USS Pueblo
• John Chilembwe on a 2,000-kwacha banknote
  John Chilembwe on a 2,000-kwacha banknote
• Artist's depiction of the Tottenham tram chase
  Artist's depiction of the Tottenham tram chase
• Elizabeth Blackwell
  Elizabeth Blackwell
• A Frisbee brand flying disc
  A Frisbee brand flying disc

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393 – Roman emperor Template:Nowrap proclaimed his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.	both: refimprove section
1565 – The Deccan sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire at the Battle of Talikota in present-day Karnataka, ending the last great Hindu kingdom in southern India.	no footnote for date
1579 – The Union of Utrecht was signed, unifying the northern provinces in the Low Countries which later formed the Dutch Republic.	needs more footnotes
1656 – Under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte, French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal published the first of his Lettres provinciales, attacking the Jesuits and their use of casuistic reasoning.	refimprove
1719 – Emperor [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap]] established Liechtenstein, the only principality in the Holy Roman Empire still in existence today.	refimprove section
1795 – War of the First Coalition: In a rare battle between cavalry and naval ships, a French Hussar regiment captured a Dutch fleet frozen at anchor between the port of Den Helder and the island of Texel.	multiple issues
1899 – Pursuant to the adoption of the Malolos Constitution and the establishment of the First Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo was sworn in as the first president of the Philippines.	Republic: refimprove section; Aguinaldo: refimprove
1912 – Twelve nations signed the International Opium Convention, the first international drug control treaty, to regulate the production and distribution of opiates.	short
1945 – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered the beginning of Operation Hannibal, which became one of the largest emergency evacuations by sea in history, with over Template:Nowrap people transferred over 15 weeks.	refimprove section
1960 – The bathyscaphe Trieste reached the record depth of Template:Convert in the Challenger Deep area of the Mariana Trench.	section duplicates other content
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, inducted its first members, including Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley.	refimprove section
2004 – Viktor Yushchenko was inaugurated as president of Ukraine, bringing the Orange Revolution to its conclusion.	unreferenced section
2006 – After 12 years of Liberal Party's rule, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party won the most seats in the Canadian federal election.	unreferenced section, refimprove section
Johann Wilhelm Ritter |d|1810|	Lead too short
Muthu Coomaraswamy |b|1834	Lead too short
Mykola Leontovych |d|1921	Death date in lead and body conflict
Yukie Kawamura |b|1986	Ref improve

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• 1264 – King Louis IX of France issued the Mise of Amiens, a settlement between King Henry III of England and barons led by Simon de Montfort heavily favouring the former, which later led to the Second Barons' War.
• 1556 – One of the deadliest earthquakes in history struck Shaanxi, China, resulting in at least 100,000 direct deaths.
• 1570 – James Hamilton killed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, in the first recorded assassination of a head of government using a firearm.
• 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.
• 1793 – The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time.
• 1846 – Ahmad Bey declared the legal abolition of slavery in Tunisia.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1942 – World War II: Japan began an invasion of the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
• 1957 – American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee"
• 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.
• 1968 – USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.
• 1993 – The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser.
• 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.
• 2001 – Five people attempted to set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, an act that many later claimed to have been staged by the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
• 2002 – American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later murdered by al-Qaeda agents in Karachi, Pakistan.
• Born/died this day: | Hai Rui |b|1514| Mary Ward |b|1585| John Croke |d|1620| Georgios Karaiskakis|b|1782| Arthur Guinness |d|1803| Ernst Abbe |b|1840| Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama|b|1880| Tom Denning |b|1899| Guida Maria|b|1950| Hsu Tain-tsair|b|1953|Steve Graham|b|1962| Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem |d|1984| Louisa Cadamuro |b|1987

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• 1368 – The Hongwu Emperor (pictured) ascended to the throne, initiating the Ming dynasty, which would rule China for three centuries.
• 1571 – Queen Elizabeth I opened the Royal Exchange in London, giving it its royal title.
• 1870 – American Indian Wars: The United States Army killed about 200 Piegan Blackfeet, mostly women, children, and the elderly, in the Marias Massacre.
• 1915 – Rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners, beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi.
• 2003 – The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.