Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 January 23

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• ... that the chat flycatcher (pictured) eats blind snakes?
• ... that
  gold prospector
  ?
• ... that
  first European Cup title and 50 years after the Munich air disaster
  ?
• ... that the Beirut II parliamentary constituency has the highest percentage of Armenian voters in Lebanon?
• ... that René Echevarria became a screenwriter after selling an unsolicited script to Star Trek: The Next Generation?
• ... that
  Bloody Run
  is so named due to a legend that a hunter killed seven deer near the stream in one day?
• ... that plastiglomerates are rock formations that contain plastic?

• King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies and is succeeded by his brother Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
• Yemeni President
  Shia insurgents
  .
• British spacecraft Beagle 2 is located intact on the surface of Mars after having been declared lost in 2004.
• After the Swiss National Bank ends its cap on the exchange rate to the euro, the franc increases in value significantly.
• Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson become the first successful free climbers of the 3,000-foot (900 m) Dawn Wall of El Capitan (pictured) in Yosemite National Park, California.
• Giorgio Napolitano, the longest-serving President of Italy, resigns due to age.

Ongoing:

January 23

• 1719 – Emperor Charles VI established Liechtenstein, the only principality in the Holy Roman Empire still in existence today.
• 1870 – American Indian Wars: The United States Army massacred a friendly band of Piegan Blackfeet in Montana Territory, resulting in about 200 deaths, mostly women, children, and elderly men.
• 1899 – Pursuant to the adoption of the Malolos Constitution and the establishment of the First Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo (pictured) was sworn in as the first President of the Philippines.
• 1915 – The Chilembwe uprising, regarded as a seminal moment in the history of Malawi, began as rebels, led by a minister, attacked local plantation owners.
• 1945 – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered the beginning of Operation Hannibal, which became one of the largest emergency evacuations by sea in history, with over 1 million people transferred over 15 weeks.

More anniversaries: January 22 – January 23 – January 24