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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_23" title="January 23">January 23</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1264" title="1264">1264</a> – King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France" title="Louis IX of France">Louis IX of France</a> issued the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_of_Amiens" title="Mise of Amiens">Mise of Amiens</a></b>, a settlement between King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III of England</a> and barons led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montfort,_6th_Earl_of_Leicester" title="Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester">Simon de Montfort</a> heavily favouring the former, which later led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barons%27_War" title="Second Barons' War">Second Barons' War</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789" title="1789">1789</a> – Bishop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_(archbishop)" title="John Carroll (archbishop)">John Carroll</a> purchased a plot of land that would become the home of the future <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a></b>, the oldest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_higher_education" title="Catholic higher education">Catholic university</a> in the United States.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902" title="1902">1902</a> – In the most fatal recorded mountaineering accident, 199 of the 210 members of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> unit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hakk%C5%8Dda_disaster" title="Mount Hakkōda disaster">perished in a blizzard</a> on the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakk%C5%8Dda_Mountains" title="Hakkōda Mountains">Hakkōda Mountains</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957" title="1957">1957</a> – American inventor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frederick_Morrison" title="Walter Frederick Morrison">Fred Morrison</a> sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham-O" title="Wham-O">Wham-O</a> toy company, who later renamed it the "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbee" title="Frisbee">Frisbee</a></b>".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001" title="2001">2001</a> – Five people <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident" title="Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident">attempted to set themselves on fire</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square" title="Tiananmen Square">Tiananmen Square</a>, Beijing, an act that many later claimed to have been staged by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a> to frame <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong" title="Falun Gong">Falun Gong</a> and thus escalate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong" title="Persecution of Falun Gong">their persecution</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai_Rui" title="Hai Rui">Hai Rui</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1514); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Denning,_Baron_Denning" title="Tom Denning, Baron Denning">Tom Denning</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1899); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Gautier-van_Berchem" title="Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem">Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1984); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD" title="Salvador Dalí">Salvador Dalí</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1989)</p>
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