January 23, 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded a medical degree from Geneva College in New York. She is considered the first modern female doctor. Later in her career, Dr. Blackwell would help to begin the discipline of gynecology.

January 23, 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Casablanca), is born.

January 23, 1907 - Charles Curtis, the first Native American to be elected to the U.S. Senate, begins his official duties.

January 23, 1912 - The Aermore Manufacturing Company, located in Chicago, receives a patent for a multiple-pipe auto horn intended to play chords that sound like church organs.

January 23, 1930 - American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh becomes the first to photograph the planet Pluto.

January 23, 1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee. In his testimony, he suggests that the United States enter into a neutrality pact with Hitler. He lists, "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration" as instigators of the American intervention. He did go on to fly combat missions for the Allied cause.

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January 23, 1961 - Chicago courts reject the request to allow the showing of motion picture without first having to receive the approval of city censors.

January 23, 1968 - The USS Pueblo is captured by North Korean forces during the Vietnam War. It took almost a year to negotiate the release of the crew.

January 23, 1971 - The lowest temperature recorded in United States history occurs in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska; minus 80 degree F.

January 23, 1977 - The multigenerational epic Roots, tracing four generations of an African-American family, begins its telecast.

January 23, 1997 - Madeline Albright is sworn is as this country's first female secretary of state.


 

"In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free-honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve."  - Abraham Lincoln