Daily Calendar for Thursday, January 23, 2025

Events

• Deadliest earthquake on record killed 830,000 in China– 1556
• Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive an M.D. degree– 1849
• Envelope machine patented– 1849
• California vintner Agoston Haraszthy received 100,000 European grape vine cuttings.– 1862
• Charles Curtis first of Native American descent to be elected as U.S. senator– 1907
• Leonard Thompson received the world’s first successful insulin injection– 1922
• The movie Casablanca was copyrighted– 1943
• Duke Ellington played at New York City’s Carnegie Hall for the first time– 1943
• Fire devastated streetcar barns in Regina, Saskatchewan– 1949
• Bathyscaphe Trieste dove a record-breaking 35,800 feet– 1960
• Eldfell volcano began to form, Heimaey Island, Iceland – 1973
• Willie Mays elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame– 1979
• China’s giant pandas were added to the endangered species list– 1984
• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard– 1986
• International Polar Bear Conservation Centre opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba– 2012
• At 12:31 am, a 7.9 earthquake struck the Gulf of Alaska, about 181 miles southeast of Kodiak, prompting a tsunami warning for coastal Alaska and British Columbia, and a tsunami watch for the rest of the U.S. West Coast. This was cancelled after several hours; a minor tsunami, less than a foot, was reported in Alaska.– 2018