On this date in history…

On Jan. 23, 1973, President Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.

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

On January 23, 1864, Harper’s Weekly featured a cartoon about the Civil War.

1789 Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C.

1845 Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1849 English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.

1920 The Dutch government refused demands from the victorious Allies to hand over the ex-kaiser of Germany.

1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1937 Seventeen people went on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin’s ‘’Great Purge.’’

1950 The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

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 Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nation’s territorial waters on a spying mission.

1977 The TV mini-series ‘’Roots,’’ based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC.

1985 Debate in Britain’s House of Lords was carried live on television for the first time.

1989 Surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in his native Spain at age 84.

1991 Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Colin Powell said allied forces had achieved air superiority in the Gulf War and would focus air fire on Iraqi ground forces around Kuwait.

1997 A judge in Fairfax, Va., sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three other people.

1998 Fighting scandal allegations involving Monica Lewinsky, President Clinton assured his Cabinet that he was innocent.

Current birthdays
79 Frank Lautenberg – U.S. senator, D-NJ
75 Jeanne Moreau – Actress
70 Chita Rivera – Actress
69 Lou Antonio – Actor-director
60 Gil Gerard – Actor
59 Rutger Hauer – Actor
59 Jerry Lawson – R&B singer (The Persuasions)
56 Thomas R. Carper – U.S. senator, D-Del.
55 Anita Pointer – Singer (The Pointer Sisters)
53 Richard Dean Anderson – Actor
53 Bill Cunningham – Rock musician (The Box Tops)
53 Danny Federici – Rock musician (The E Street Band)
53 Patrick Simmons – Rock musician (The Doobie Brothers)
50 Robin Zander – Rock singer (Cheap Trick)
45 Anita Baker – Singer
44 Earl Falconer – Reggae musician (UB40)
40 Gail O’Grady – Actress (‘’American Dream’‘)
39 Mariska Hargitay – Actress (‘’Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’‘)
32 Marc Nelson – R&B singer
29 Tiffani Thiessen – Actress (‘’Beverly Hills, 90210’‘)
24 Matt Clements – King

History birthdays
Sergei Eisenstein – Russian film director
John Hancock – American Revolutionary statesman
Stendhal – French writer
Camilla Collett – Norwegian novelist/feminist
Edouard Manet – French Impressionist painter
David Hilbert – German mathematician
Sergius – Russian Patriarch of Moscow
Herbert D. Croly – American Founder of New Republic
Ralph De Palma – American race car driver
Potter Stewart – United States Associate Supreme Court Justice
Gertrude de Belle Elion – American pharmacologist

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