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On this day: January 23

POSTED: 02:26 PM PST Jan 22, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 22, 2013

The deadliest earthquake in recorded history hits China, Duke Ellington plays Carnegie Hall, North Korea captures a U.S. Navy ship, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first class, all on this day.

OTD January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein — 8 / 38

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1898: Pioneering film director Sergei Eisenstein, best known for his silent films "Strike," "Battleship Potemkin" and "October," is born in Riga, Latvia, in what was then the Russian Empire.

OTD January 23 - Shaanxi 1556 earthquake

OTD January 23 - John Hancock

OTD January 23 - Georgetown University

OTD January 23 - Arthur Guinness

OTD January 23 - Edouard Manet

OTD January 23 - Elizabeth Blackwell

OTD January 23 - Hennepin Avenue Bridge

OTD January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein

OTD January 23 - Randolph Scott

OTD January 23 - RMS Republic

OTD January 23 - Marie Curie

OTD January 23 - Charles Lindbergh

OTD January 23 - Duke Ellington

OTD January 23 - Rutger Hauer

OTD January 23 - Richard Dean Anderson

OTD January 23 - Chesley Sullenberger

OTD January 23 - Baltimore Colts

OTD January 23 - Princess Caroline

OTD January 23 - Bathyscaphe Trieste

OTD January 23 - 24th Amendment

OTD January 23 - Mariska Hargitay

OTD January 23 - USS Pueblo

OTD January 23 - Tiffani Thiessen

OTD January 23 - Barney Miller

OTD January 23 - Paul Robeson

OTD January 23 - Roots

OTD January 23 - Tapestry

OTD January 23 - The A Team

OTD January 23 - Rock and Roll HOF 1986

OTD January 23 - Salvador Dali

OTD January 23 - James Brown

OTD January 23 - John Walker Lindh

OTD January 23 - Daniel Pearl

OTD January 23 - Pioneer 10

OTD January 23 - Nell Carter

OTD January 23 - Bob Keeshan

OTD January 23 - Johnny Carson

OTD January 23 - Jack LaLanne

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