23rd January: Today In History

Today is January,  the 23rd day of 2016. There are 334 days left in the year. Today's Highlight In History; Birthdays:   1832 Edouard Manet, French artist   1899 Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls for 20 years   1903 Randolph Scott, American film actor   1919 Bob Paisley, Former manager of Liverpool FC   1950 Patrick Simmons, Of the 'Doobie Brothers'   1957 Princess Caroline of Monaco Events:   1556 An earthquake in Shensi Province, China, killed 830,000 people   1571 The Royal Exchange, in London, was founded   1931 The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova died at her Hampstead Heath home, aged 49   1943 British forces captured the city of Tripoli, Libya, from the Germans   1963 Kim Philby, the double agent, defected to Russia   1985 A House of Lords debate was televised for the first time   1986 Key suspects of the December 20 coup - Major-General Mamman Vatsa, Group Captain David lkpeme, Group Captain Salaudeen Latinwo, Squadron leader Martin Luther - appear before the Treason and Other O   1990 Gales of up to 115mph caused much damage, and four people were killed   1991 During the Gulf War, virtually all of Iraqs radar & runway facilities had been destroyed