GMT 1/23/2018

January 23

1901--A great fire ravages Montreal, resulting in $2.5 million in property lost.

1932--Franklin D. Roosevelt enters the presidential race.

1948--The Soviets refuse UN entry into North Korea to administer elections.

1950--Jerusalem becomes the official capital of Israel.

1951--President Truman creates the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, to monitor the anti-Communist campaign.

1969--NASA unveils moon-landing craft.

1973--President Richard Nixon claims that Vietnam peace has been reached in Paris and that the POWs would be home in 60 days.

1977--Alex Haley's Roots begins a record-breaking eight-night broadcast on ABC.

Born on January 23

1899--Humphrey Bogart, U.S. film actor (The African Queen, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon).


JOKE OF THE DAY

There was an old couple laying in bed. The man turns and tells the woman, "If you want to have sex, pull on my dick once. If you don't want to have sex, pull on my dick one hundred times."