January 23
Today in America's Present Past
1730 | Founder Joseph Hewes was born.
1737 | Founder John Hancock was born.
1789 | Georgetown, America’s first Catholic University, was founded.
1793 | Humane Society of Philadelphia is formed.
1800 | Founding: Edward Rutledge died.
1813 | Founder George Clymer died.
1828 | General Calvin Pratt was born.
1837 | Musician Amanda Smith was born.
1849 | Civil Rights: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first American woman to earn a medical degree.
1855 | Entrepreneur John Moses Browning was born.
1865 | Civil War: Battle of Trent’s Reach, Virginia begins.
1870 | Indian Wars: The Marias Massacre occurs in Montana.
1870 | William G. Morgan (inventor of Volleyball) was born.
1872 | Inventor Eugene Sullivan was born.
1879 | U.S. National Archery Association forms.
1889 | Civil Rights: Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, opens as the first non-segregated hospital.
1893 | SCOTUS: Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar died.
1893 | Composer Philips Brooks died.
1907 | Congress: Republican Charles Curtis became the first person of Native American descent to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
1915 | SCOTUS: Justice Potter Stewart was born.
1918 | Biochemist Gertrude B. Elion was born.
1923 | Author Walter M. Miller was born.
1933 | The Constitution’s 20th Amendment was ratified.
1951 | Pilot Chesley Sullenberger was born.
1964 | The Constitution’s 24th Amendment was ratified.
1868 | North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo and its 83-man crew.
1973 | Vietnam War: Republican President Nixon announces an accord to end hostiles in Vietnam.
1976 | Actor Sidney Poitier wed Joanna Shimkus.
2002 | War on Terror: U.S. Journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapped and murdered.
2002 | Philosopher Robert Nozick died.
2004 | Actor Bob Keeshan died.
2005 | Comedian Johnny Carson died.
2007 | CIA officer E. Howard Hunt died.
2021 | TV host Larry King died.