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January 23

971
War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops forcing the Southern Han state to submit to the Song Dynasty. First regular war elephant corps in the Chinese army.

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.

2020
China locks down the city of Wuhan and its 9 million people, in a belated but ultimately successful effort to control the city's COVID-19 epidemic

2023
Japan on the brink of not being able to function as a society, because of its falling birth rate and high life expectancy, says Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in speech to Japanese parliament

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."