On this day …
January 23, 2018
- In 1570, James Stewart, the First Earl of Moray, was assassinated in the first recorded instance of such an act by use of a firearm.
- In 1719, the principality of Liechtenstein was created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- In 1789, Georgetown University, the first Catholic institution of higher learning in America, was founded.
- In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a medical degree.
- In 1941, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, in testimony before the U.S. Congress, recommended that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Nazi Germany.
- In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced that a peace accord had been reached in Vietnam.
- In 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first members, including Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and James Brown.
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