Today in History, 1/23

1533: Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, learns she is pregnant. The baby would grow up to be Queen Elizabeth I.
1556: The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, kills as many as 830,000 in China.
1789: Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic college in the US.
1855: The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in Minneapolis, MN.
1855: John Moses Browning is born. He invented the Browning Automatic Rifle.1898: Randolph Scott is born. He is best known for all the westerns he starred in.
1919: Ernie Kovacs, comedian, is born.

1923: Walter M. Miller, Jr. is born. He wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz.
1937: In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Stalin.
1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.
1943: Gil Gerard is born. He played Buck Rogers on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
1944: Rutger Hauer is born. So watch Blind Fury or Ladyhawke tonight!
1950: Richard Dean Anderson is born. I used to love MacGyver when I was a kid.

1957: Wham-O produces its first Frisbee.
1960: The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a record by descending to 35,798 feet in the Pacific Ocean.1964: The 24th Amendment to the US Constitution, banning poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.

1964: Mariska Hargitay is born. She's the daughter of Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield and stars on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

She takes after her mother!

1968: North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming that it had been on a spying mission.1973: Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord had been reached with Vietnam.
1978: Terry Kath, of the rock band Chicago, accidentally shoots himself in the head, believing the gun was unloaded.
1978: Jack Oakie dies.
1989: Salvador Dali dies.
Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up