What happend on 23rd January

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1943

World War II: British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis.

1941

Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

1937

In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.

1920

The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.

1912

The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.

1907

Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.

1904

Ã…lesund Fire: Norwegian coastal town Ã…lesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless. German Kaiser Wilhelm helps rebuild the town in Jugendstil architecture.

1870

Marias Massacre

1855

The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.

1849

Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.