Updated January 22, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Jan. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
On Jan. 23, 1898, Sergei Eisenstein, the Russian film director and innovator, was born. Following his death on Feb. 11, 1948, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1789 Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C. 1849 English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y. 1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. 1937 Seventeen people went on trial in Moscow during Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s Great Purge. 1950 The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel. 1964 The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified. 1968 North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship the USS Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nation’s territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was held for 11 months. 1977 The TV mini-series “Roots,” based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC. 1989 Surrealist painter Salvador Dali died in his native Spain at age 84. 1991 Allied forces in the Persian Gulf War announced that they had achieved air superiority after some 12,000 sorties. 1997 A judge in Fairfax, Va., sentenced a Pakistani man to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two people and wounded three. 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan, by a group demanding the return of prisoners from the Afghan campaign. (He was later killed.) 2005 Former “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson died at age 79. Current Birthdays
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Actress Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) turns 48 years old today.
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa turns 59 years old today.
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1924 Frank Lautenberg, U.S. senator, D-N.J., turns 88 1928 Jeanne Moreau, Actress, turns 84 1930 Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize-winning poet, playwright, turns 82 1933 Chita Rivera, Actress, dancer, turns 79 1944 Rutger Hauer, Actor, turns 68 1947 Thomas R. Carper, U.S. senator, D-Del., turns 65 1948 Anita Pointer, Singer (The Pointer Sisters), turns 64 1950 Richard Dean Anderson, Actor, turns 62 1953 Robin Zander, Rock singer (Cheap Trick), turns 59 1957 Princess Caroline, Member of Monaco’s royal family, turns 55 1958 Anita Baker, R&B singer, turns 54 1974 Tiffani Thiessen, Actress (“Beverly Hills, 90210”), turns 38
Historic Birthdays
Sergei Eisenstein 1/23/1898 – 2/11/1948 Russian film director.Go to obituary »
56 John Hancock 1/23/1737 (N.S.) – 10/8/1793
American Revolutionary statesman59 Stendhal 1/23/1783 – 3/23/1842
French writer82 Camilla Collett 1/23/1813 – 3/6/1895
Norwegian novelist/feminist51 Edouard Manet 1/23/1832 – 4/30/1883
French Impressionist painter81 David Hilbert 1/23/1862 – 2/14/1943
German mathematician77 Sergius 1/23/1867 – 5/15/1944
Russian Patriarch of Moscow61 Herbert D. Croly 1/23/1869 – 5/17/1930
American Founder of New Republic72 Ralph De Palma 1/23/1884 – 3/31/1956
American race car driver70 Potter Stewart 1/23/1915 – 12/7/1985
United States Associate Supreme Court Justice81 Gertrude Belle Elion 1/23/1918 – 2/21/1999
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