January 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	971	In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.	Yo La Tengo	How to Make a Baby Elephant Float	Summer Sun
2	1510	Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.	Saturday Looks Good to Me	No Good with Secrets	All Your Summer Songs
3	1556	The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.	The Temptations	Shakey Ground	A Song for You
4	1656	Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.	Seki	Selected Letters	Before the Last Song at Wounded Hill
5	1849	Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.	The Outsiders	Doctor	Complete Polydor Tapes
6	1897	Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.	The Unicorns	Tuff Ghost	Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
7	1941	Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.	The Get Up Kids	The Worst Idea	On a Wire
8	1960	The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.	Sportswear	It Runs Deep	It Runs Deep

(Historical facts about January 23 are from Wikipedia.)