January 23 in history — What Happened Today in History

World Airways Flight 30 overshoots the runway at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, and crashes into Boston Harbor. Two people are missing and presumed dead.

USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by the Korean People's Navy.

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.

Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.

The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.

The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese Army stationed in Tite.

The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.

After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.

American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".

The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal, the evacuation of areas along the eastern Baltic coast.

World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.

World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.

Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.

The first successful treatment with insulin is given to 14-year-old diabetic Leonard Thompson.

The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.

The First Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Velykomykhailivka.

The First International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.

RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.

Ålesund Fire: The Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.

Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.

The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first president.

Anglo-Zulu War: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.

In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.

Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.

Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.

After crossing the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry capture 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of surrender of naval vessels to land forces.

Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler

Leo Komarov, Estonian-Finnish ice hockey player

Gelete Burka, Ethiopian runner

Marc Laird, Scottish footballer

José Enrique, Spanish footballer

Steven Taylor, English footballer

Sandro Viletta, Swiss skier

San E, South Korean rapper

Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer

Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model and actress

Yevgeny Lukyanenko, Russian pole vaulter

Aselefech Mergia, Ethiopian runner

Jeff Samardzija, American baseball and football player

Yuri Izrael, Russian meteorologist and journalist (born 1930)

Elmira Nazirova, Azerbaijani composer (born 1928)

Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (born 1929)

Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (born 1929)

Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (born 1928)

Johnny Carson, American talk show host, television personality, and producer (born 1925)

Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (born 1920)

Nell Carter, American actress and singer (born 1948)

Paul Aars, American race car driver (born 1934)

Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (born 1930)

Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author, and academic (born 1938)

Joe D'Amato, Italian director and cinematographer (born 1936)

Jay Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded the Hyatt Corporation (born 1922)