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Events on January 23

• 1710 A decree by Augustus the Strong provides for the establishment of the Royal-Polish and Electoral-Saxon Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen under the direction of Johann Friedrich Böttger.
• 1874 The Prussian Landtag passes the law on compulsory civil marriage. In Prussia, divorce is now also possible.
• 1896 Before the Physical-Medical Society, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen presents the X-rays he discovered. During the demonstration, Albert von Koelliker's hand is used as the object of demonstration.
• 1930 In Thuringia, the NSDAP participates in the government of a German federal state for the first time, under the Baum-Frick government.
• 1943 The last German aircraft leaves Stalingrad, encircled by the Red Army, during the Second World War.
• 1960 Deep-sea explorers Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh reach the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench aboard the submarine Trieste, the second-deepest known ocean depth on Earth. At 10,740 metres, they set a deep-diving record.
• 1972 The Mouse first appears in Laughing and Learning Stories for Television Beginners and subsequently gives the show its name.
• 1981 The Berlin House of Representatives elects Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Jochen Vogel as Governing Mayor to succeed the resigned Dietrich Stobbe. Vogel soon announces new elections.
• 1986 In a solemn ceremony, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Little Richard are inducted as the first members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was founded at the suggestion of Ahmet Ertegün.
• 1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State in the cabinet of the Democratic U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• 2018 In Davos, Switzerland, the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum begins under the motto “For a shared future in a fragmented world” and runs through Friday, with more than 3,000 participants, including 70 heads of state and government.
• 2020 Security forces seal off Hankou railway station in Wuhan; it is the world's first lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic that was emerging at the time.

Born on January 23

• 1855 John Moses Browning, American inventor
• 1862 David Hilbert, German mathematician
• 1910 Django Reinhardt, Belgian-French jazz musician
• 1920 Gottfried Böhm, German architect
• 1930 Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet and writer, Nobel laureate
• 1940 Armin Maiwald, German author, director, presenter and television producer
• 1950 Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
• 1970 Jonathan Meese, German multidisciplinary artist
• 1990 Joel Basman, Swiss actor
• 1990 Bianca Schmidt, German female footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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