On this day: January 23

January 23

USS Pueblo

• 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history killed about 830,000 people in Shaanxi Province, China.
• 1793 – The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time.
• 1915 – The Chilembwe uprising, regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi, began as rebels, led by a minister, attacked local plantation owners.
• 1942 – World War II: Japan began its invasion of the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
• 1968 – USS Pueblo (pictured) was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.

Muthu Coomaraswamy (b. 1834) · Mykola Leontovych (d. 1921) · Louisa Cadamuro (b. 1987)

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