PHOTOS: Today in history — Jan. 23

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The casket of former President Lyndon B. Johnson is in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 23, 1973.

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Dr. Felix Bloch, right, Stanford University professor of physics, and Dr. William W. Hansen, director of the Stanford Microwave Laboratory, examine a working model of equipment used in their research work, Jan. 23, 1947, in Stanford.

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Patrol wagon filled with confiscated moonshine while wrecked car of bootleggers rests by the curb in Washington on Jan. 23, 1922.

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Members of the Reichswehr Artillery Ski Corps stand ready to take part in manoeuvres on the Zugspitze Mountain, in Germany, on Jan. 23, 1933.

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Sen. Richard Nixon, R-CA, left, and Rep. Gerald R. Ford, Jr., pose Jan. 23, 1951, after a talk in the Senator's office.

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This unusual view of a bus nosed into a huge bomb crater in a London street, was made after one of last year?s heavy night air raids of 1941. The omnibus seen in the crater in a London Suburban street in photo released on Jan. 23, 1942.

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Bandleader-composer Duke Ellington receives an “Oscar” from Danny Kaye, who was master of ceremonies for Esquire magazine’s 1945 All-American Jazz concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic auditorium on Jan. 23, 1945. Ellington was the official choice of all the judges in the annual swing contest.

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The teepees in this photo are that of the Blackfoot Indians taken on Jan. 23, 1949.

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Cheering, flag waving crowd estimated at more than 20,000 persons greeted Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro (arrow) on his arrival at Caracas, Venezuela, airport Jan. 23, 1959. Castro arrived for celebration of Venezuelan overthrown of their dictator, Marcos Perez Jiminez, a year ago.

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Guns 'n Roses band member, Slash, right, holds a drink and a cigarette as he and Duff McKagan accept American Music Award for favorite heavy medal artist in Los Angeles Monday, Jan. 23, 1990. ABC apologized for the language used by the pair during acceptance of two awards.

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Joan Kagman demonstrates a new portable scooter designed for compact transport in a car, plane or boat or for storing in an apartment. It was shown at the International Sports, boat and vacation show in Chicago, on Jan. 23, 1961. The scooter, equipped with a one cylinder motor and seating two, can, according to its makers, ranch a top speed of 35 miles on hour and can go as far as 165 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It weighs but 84 pounds.

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Buddhist monks and a nun, extreme right, stop Saigon policeman from arresting a Vietnamese girl, sitting on roadbed, who attempted to smuggle a knife into the national Buddhist institute in Saigon on Jan. 23, 1965. Government troops clashed in Saigon for the second straight day with Buddhist demonstrators whose aim is to topple the Vietnamese cabinet.

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Maria Saladino,47-year-old elementary school teacher, has re-started her lessons in the open air at a tent camp at the small town of Camporeale, Sicily on Jan. 23, 1968. The town was one of the worst hit by the catastrophic earthquake which struck a large part of Western Sicily.

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Film director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate, lift their glasses in a toast at the premiere of his film "Rosemary's Baby" in London, England, Jan. 23, 1969.

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O.J. Simpson’s friend and personal attorney Robert Kardashian arrives at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles, Jan. 23, 1995. Opening arguement was scheduled to start in the Simpson double-murder trial.

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World and national freestyle skating champion Dorothy Hamill is shown in Rockefeller Center ice skating rink in New York, Jan. 23, 1976.

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Boxing promoter Don King reacts to an article in Wednesday?s edition of Newsday during a press conference in New York on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1985. According to the article the FBI reportedly tried and failed to catch King in illegal acts. King said he knew nothing of the operation.

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British opposition leader Margaret Thatcher visited the British Rhine Army at Herford and Guetersloh on Jan. 23, 1976. Pictured Margaret Thatcher talking to soldiers of the 40th Field Regiment at Guetersloh.

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Sonny Bono, left, and his ex-wife, Cher clown before Mike Douglas during the taping of the Mike Douglas Show in Los Angeles, Ca., Monday, Jan 23, 1979. Cher co-hosts a week with Douglas to air beginning Feb. 26.

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Monica Lewinsky walks through the lobby of a hotel in Washington, Saturday afternoon Jan. 23, 1999. A federal judge Saturday ordered Monica Lewinsky to submit to an interview sought by House prosecutors in President Clinton's impeachment trial or ``forfeit her protections'' under her immunity deal with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Democrats assailed Starr for intervening in the dispute.

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Former American hostage Bruce German of Kensington, Md., wearing parka with fur, is in the middle of a crowd of journalists and photographers Friday morning as he arrives at the main gate of the Weisbaden U.S. Air Force hospital in West Germany on Jan. 23, 1981. He and 51 other former hostages will stay in the hospital until their return to the United States.

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University of California professor and former Black Panther Angela Y. Davis addresses a crowd at the New England School of Law Friday, Jan. 23, 1998, in Boston. Davis was invited to be the keynote speaker for a day-long symposium on the treatment of women prisoners.