01-22-2011, 08:02 PM
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January 23rd
1789 ~ Georgetown College, founded by Archbishop John Carroll, became the first Catholic, Jesuit college in the U.S.
1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician.
1879 ~ The Battle of Rorke's Drift, immortalized in the film "Zulu".
1968 ~ North Korea seized 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.
1973 ~ President Nixon appeared on national television to announce "peace with honor" in Vietnam.
1977 ~ Death of Toots Shor, New York restaurateur.
1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist.
2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan.
2004 ~ Death of Bob Keeshan, TV's “Captain Kangaroo”.
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