Sunday, January 23, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 23
1973
:President Richard Nixon announces that National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and chief North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho have reached an agreement that will bring an end to the Vietnam War. The Paris Peace Accords will be formally signed on Jan. 27, bringing into effect a cease-fire, the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the release of prisoners of war.

1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the United States to receive a medical doctorate, following her graduation at the top of her class from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, N.Y.

1957: Based on the design of William Frederick Morrison, the Wham-O toy company begins producing a plastic flying disc known as the Pluto Platter. The toy is quickly renamed the Frisbee, after the Frisbie Pie Company, whose empty tins were first used in games by local university students near Bridgeport, Conn.

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