Page 5: Historical Events In January - 23

1903  On January - 23 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  Theodor Schaefer, composer on this day in history.   

1905  On this day in history david Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)   

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

1907  On this day in history charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American US senator   

1907  On January - 23 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.)   

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

1907  Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees) on this day in history.   

1908  On this day in history uS &Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo   

1908  On January - 23 uS & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo   

1908  On this day in history hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist   

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

1909  On this day in history the first radio rescue at sea   

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 January - 23.   

1912  On January - 23 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.   

1912  The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague on January - 23.   

1912  On this day in history ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy)   

1913  Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated on January - 23.   

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

1915  On January - 23 herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948)   

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 this day in history.   

1918  On January - 23 stellarton, Nova Scotia a coal gas explosion kills eighty-eight men in the Allan Shaft at Stellarton   

1918  On this day in history gertrude Belle Elion, NYC, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)   

1919  On January - 23 bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool   

1920  On this day in history dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies   

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

1920  On January - 23 erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka)   

1921  On this day in history wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83   

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 this day in history.   

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1350  On January - 23 birth of vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)   

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  On this day in history birth of joseph Hewes, US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)   

1745  William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814) was born on January - 23.   

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

1002  On this day in history otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21   

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

1356  Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies on January - 23.   

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

1548  On this day in history bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57   

1549  Death of Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498) on this day in history.   

1567  Death of Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507) on this day in history.   

1622  William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 on this day in history.