Volume 14 , Issue 4

On This Day In History (23 January)

On this day, 23 January 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War. Go to Article

On 23 January, 1898, Sergei Eisenstein, the Russian film director and innovator, was born. Following his death on 11 February 1948, his obituary appeared in the Times.

On This Date, 23 January:

• 1789 - Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C.
• 1849 - English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
• 1932 - New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
• 1937 - Seventeen people went on trial in Moscow during Soviet leader Josef Stalin's Great Purge.
• 1950 - The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
• 1962 - Tony Bennett recorded "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in New York for Columbia Records.
• 1964 - The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified.
• 1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship the USS Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was held for 11 months.
• 1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC.

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