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January 23, today in history

memorabilia

4th century

393: The Roman Emperor Theodosius I declares his 9-year-old son Flavius Augustus Hornorius as co-ruler of the Roman Empire.

7th century

684: Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ascends the throne for the first time.

14th century

1368: Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne at Yingtian and establishes the Ming Dynasty. Li Ma was made empress, Li Zhubiao was crown prince, and Li Shanchang and Xu Da were left and right ministers, establishing the Ming Dynasty, which ruled China for 3 centuries.

16th century

1556: The Jiajing Earthquake, the earthquake with the largest number of deaths in human history

1556: A powerful earthquake in Shaanxi Province, China, killed 830,000 people (excluding unregistered residents), making it the deadliest earthquake in world history.

1576: The Catholic Diocese of Macau is established.

18th century

1719: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI allows Liechtenstein to become an independent Grand Duchy.

20th century

1940: Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression: Wang Jingwei decides to establish the government of the Republic of China in Nanjing.

1943: World War II: British Eighth Army captures Tripoli.

1958: A coup d'état takes place in Venezuela and dictator Marcos Pérez Jimenez is overthrown.

1964: Indonesia and Malaysia agree to stop border war.

1968: The U.S. general environmental research ship PUEBLO is seized by North Korean forces while conducting intelligence gathering in the Sea of Japan near Wonsan, North Korea.

1973: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces an armistice with the Republic of Vietnam.

1973: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that women have the right to an abortion.

21st century

2005: Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine.

2015: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies and Crown Prince Salman succeeds him as the new king.

2019: The political crisis erupts as President Juan Guaido, president of the Venezuelan National Congress, who swore himself in an interim presidency, competing for power with Nicolás Maduro, who holds real power.

2020: Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, closed all access to and from the city, marking the first time in human history that a large city with a population of 10 million people has been cordoned off for epidemic prevention needs. The first two highly suspected cases of COVID-19 in Hong Kong the day before were officially confirmed.

born

598: Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, second emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China (died 649)

- 1340: Emperor Zhaozong of Yuan, Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty (died 1378)

1783: Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)

1828: Takamori Saigo, Japanese politician (died 1877)

1832: Édouard Manet, French painter (died 1883)

1862 David Hilbert, German mathematician (died 1943)

1872: Lang Zhiwan, French physicist (died 1946)

1893: Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (died 1948)

1897: Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1945)

1907: Hideaki Makikawa, Japanese physicist (passed away in 1981)

1930: Derek Wolcott, Saint Lucia poet (died 2017)

1935: Rod Cheng, Hong Kong politician (died 2006)

1938: Giant Racecourse, Japanese professional wrestler (died 1999)

1950: Richard Dean Anderson, American television actor

1954: Fumiyoshi Kohi, Japanese actor

1957: Caroline, Princess of Monaco, Princess of Hanover

1958: Tian Niu, Taiwanese actress

1961: Yin Zhengyang, Taiwanese singer

1962: Richard Rosenberg, Australian actor

1968: Yasuhiro Takato, Japanese voice actor

1969 – Andrei Kanchersky, Russian footballer

1972: Yang Zheng, Hong Kong model

1974: Yuki Urushihara, Japanese manga artist

In 1976:

Li Xinjie is a Malaysian female singer

Tsuyoshi Muro is a Japanese actor

In 1980:

Huang Yuxin is a Taiwanese actor

Natsume Nana is a Japanese AV actress

In 1981:

Cheung King Soon is a Hong Kong actor

Gong Ruina is a Chinese badminton player

Wang Youliang is a Hong Kong singer

1982: Wei Zongcheng, Taiwanese cartoonist

1984 Ayan Robben, Dutch footballer

In 1985:

Trudeau Cruise, Dutch supermodel

San E, Korean rapper

In 1989:

Yani Zeng is a taiwanese women's golfer

Wong Shin Ying is a Hong Kong female entertainer

1992: Trindell Reina, Japanese model and entertainer

1993: Makoto Matsunaga, Voice of Japanese Women

1995: Wang Shuang, Chinese footballer

1995: Lee Woo-young, member of the Korean girl idol group Hello Venus

In 1998:

XXXTentacion, American male rapper (died 2018)

Yuto is a member of the Korean boy idol group PENTAGON

1999: Ryo Nagase, member of the Japanese men's idol group King & Prince at Janis Office

die

1556: 830,000 people were killed in the Jiajing earthquake, including some Ming dynasty politicians Han Bangqi, Ma Li, He Chengguang, Wang Shangli, Yang Jiuze, Wang Weizhen, and Bai Dayong.

1620: Naoe Kane, Japanese warlord of the Sengoku period, Azuchi-Momoyama period, and Edo period (b. 1560)

1959: Chow Shou-chan, Hong Kong's first Member of the Chinese Executive Council (b. 1861)

1974: Guo Baichuan, well-known painter (born in 1901)

1976: Paul Robertson, African-American singer (b. 1898)

1989: Dalí, Spain's leading surrealist painter (b. 1904)

2003: Lo Kin Lo, Hong Kong actor. (born 1921)

2012: Guo Xuehu, Taiwanese painter. (born 1908)

2015: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (born 1924)

2017: Gu Chengyun, second son of Koo Chun-fu, Taiwanese entrepreneur and former Chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (born 1954)

2017: Lee Kwan Ha, former Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, first Chinese Commissioner. (born 1937)

2019: Lin Qingxuan, Taiwanese writer. (born 1953)

2019: Fung Wai-jin, Singaporean actor. (born 1990)