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