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• Today is Thursday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2014. There are 342 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to endorse it.
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• On this date:
• In 1789, Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C.
• In 1845, Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
• In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
• In 1933, the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called "Lame Duck Amendment," was ratified as Missouri approved it.
• In 1937, 17 people went on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge." (All were convicted of conspiracy; all but four were executed.)
• In 1944, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ("The Scream") died near Oslo at age 80.
• In 1950, the Israeli Knesset approved a resolution affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
• In 1960, the U.S. Navy-operated bathyscaphe (BATH'-ih-skahf) Trieste carried two men to the deepest known point in the Pacific Ocean, reaching a depth of more than 35,000 feet.
• In 1964, Arthur Miller's play "After the Fall," widely regarded as a thinly-disguised account of Miller's failed marriage to Marilyn Monroe, opened in New York.
• In 1968, North Korea seized the Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew was released 11 months later.)
• In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War, and would be formally signed four days later in Paris.
• In 1989, surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in his native Figueres, Spain, at age

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