01-23-2006, 06:34 AM
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January 23rd
1789 ~ Georgetown College, now University, founded by Archbishop John Carroll, became the first Catholic, Jesuit college in the U.S.
1832 ~ Birthday of Edouard Manet, Impressionist artist.
1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded her MD, and became the first woman doctor in the U.S.
1857 ~ Birthday of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician.
1943 ~ Australian and American forces defeated the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marked the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
1973 ~ U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that a peace accord had been reached in Vietnam.
1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist.
2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered in Pakistan.
2006 ~ Canadian federal election.
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