What are the important events that happened on January 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 23: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 23 is the 23^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 10, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,959,840 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icositrigon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 6 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,416 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 23 Historical Events

• 1546 –
  Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
• 1719 –
  The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1855 –
  The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
• 1870 –
  In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
• 1897 –
  Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
• 1943 –
  World War II: Troops of Montgomery’s 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
• 1960 –
  The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1974 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• 1997 –
  Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.

Who were born on January 23?

• 1862 –
  David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
• 1872 –
  Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
• 1897 –
  Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
• 1913 –
  Wally Parks, American racing executive, founder of the NHRA (d. 2007)
• 1919 –
  Frances Bay, Canadian actress (d. 2011)
• 1923 –
  Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996)
• 1971 –
  Scott Gibbs, Welsh rugby player
• 1972 –
  Lisa Snowdon, British model and TV presenter
• 1982 –
  Patrick Levis, American actor
• 1990 –
  Martyn Waghorn, English footballer

Who died on January 23?

• 1548 –
  Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
• 1820 –
  Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
• 1921 –
  Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer (b. 1877)
• 1923 –
  Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
• 1971 –
  Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
• 1973 –
  Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
• 1976 –
  Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
• 1986 –
  Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
• 1999 –
  Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
• 2004 –
  Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)