Year 1998
Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
JANUARY 23
Daily Historical Chronicle
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23 January: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 23 January.
Year 2001
Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
Year 2002
U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
Year 2003
A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
Year 2018
A 7.9 Mw⯠earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
Year 2018
A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.[
Born 1809
Surendra Sai, Indian activist (d. 1884)
Born 1894
Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author (d. 1988)
Born 1897
Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (d. 1945)
Born 1926
Bal Thackeray, Indian journalist, cartoonist, and politician (d. 2012)
Died 2018
Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, composer and singer (b. 1939)
Died 2018
Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914)
Died 2018
Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist and pastor (b. 1928)[10]