{"id":30631,"date":"2017-01-23T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=30631"},"modified":"2017-01-23T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:31:19","slug":"today-in-history-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=30631","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today in History: Monday, January\u00a0 23, 2017<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Jan. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
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1789<\/td>\nGeorgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1849<\/td>\nEnglish-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1932<\/td>\nNew York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1937<\/td>\nSeventeen people went on trial in Moscow during Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s Great Purge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950<\/td>\nThe Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/td>\nTony Bennett recorded “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in New York for Columbia Records.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1964<\/td>\nThe 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968<\/td>\nNorth 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\nThe TV mini-series “Roots,” based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nSurrealist painter Salvador Dali died in his native Spain at age 84.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nAllied forces in the Persian Gulf War announced that they had achieved air superiority after some 12,000 sorties.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nA 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nWall 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.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nFormer “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson died at age 79.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Highlights of This Day in History<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) turns 53 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jeanne Moreau<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derek Walcott<\/td>\nNobel Prize-winning poet, playwright<\/td>\n87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chita Rivera<\/td>\nActress, dancer<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rutger Hauer<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas R. Carper<\/td>\nU.S. senator, D-Del.<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anita Pointer<\/td>\nSinger (The Pointer Sisters)<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richard Dean Anderson<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robin Zander<\/td>\nRock singer (Cheap Trick)<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Princess Caroline<\/td>\nMember of Monaco’s royal family<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anita Baker<\/td>\nR&B singer<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tiffani Thiessen<\/td>\nActress (“Beverly Hills, 90210”)<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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