SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2010

Today is Saturday, January 23, the 23rd day of 2010. There are 342 days left in the year.

638 _ Start of Islamic calendar

1265 _ First English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)

1556 _ Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China

1719 _ Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire

1723 _ Georg Friedrich Handel's opera ``Ottone" premieres in London

1950 _ Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel

1973 _ U.S. President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War

1983 _ Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1987 _ Japan first exceeds military spending cap of 1 percent of GNP ($23 billion)

1998 _ Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba