January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
+ 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
+ 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
+ 1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
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1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
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+ 1737 – John Hancock, American general and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1793)
+ 1932 – George Allen, English footballer (d. 2016)