412 Historic Events for January 23
|
|
|
|
|
| 1900 |
Birth |
Mary Philips, CT, actress (Farewell to Arms, Incendiary Blonde)
|
|
|
| 1901 |
Birth |
Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician
|
|
|
| 1902 |
Birth |
Benny Waters, saxophonist
|
|
|
| 1902 |
Event |
Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for Stanley Cup
|
|
|
| 1904 |
Birth |
Theodor Schaefer, composer
|
|
|
| 1905 |
Birth |
David Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)
|
|
|
| 1905 |
Birth |
Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
|
|
|
| 1906 |
Birth |
Bob Steele, Pendleton Oregon, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)
|
|
|
| 1907 |
Event |
Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
|
|
|
| 1907 |
Birth |
Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
|
|
|
| 1907 |
Birth |
Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)
|
|
|
| 1908 |
Birth |
Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
|
|
|
| 1908 |
Birth |
Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer
|
|
|
| 1908 |
Death |
Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
|
|
|
| 1908 |
Event |
US and Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
|
|
|
| 1909 |
Event |
1st radio rescue at sea
|
|
|
| 1909 |
Birth |
Norman Fulton, composer
|
|
|
| 1910 |
Birth |
Django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist
|
|
|
| 1911 |
Birth |
Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer
|
|
|
| 1912 |
Birth |
Ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy)
|
|
|
| 1913 |
Death |
Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated
|
|
|
| 1914 |
Birth |
Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
|
|
|
| 1915 |
Birth |
Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
|
|
|
| 1915 |
Birth |
Potter Stewart, Mich, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)
|
|
|
| 1916 |
Event |
Temp falls from 44øF (7øC) to -56øF (49øC) night of 23-24, Browning MT
|
