01-22-2013, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
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January 23rd
1789 ~ Georgetown College, founded by Archbishop John Carroll, became the first Catholic, Jesuit college in the U.S. This is the parent institution of Georgetown Medical where my BIL was readmitted today.
1832 ~ Birthday of Edouard Manet, Impressionist artist.
1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
1857 ~ Birthday of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician.
1968 ~ North Korea seized 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.
1973 ~ President Nixon appeared on national television to announce "peace with honor" in Vietnam.
1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist.
2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan.
2004 ~ Death of Bob Keeshan, TV's “Captain Kangaroo”.
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