Today's 23 January Fun Facts in History

First Woman Earns US Medical Degree

1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the US to earn a medical degree, graduating from New York's Geneva Medical College

1849 US Patent granted for an envelope-making machine to Jesse K. Park and Cornelius S. Watson
1897 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs dwarf planet Pluto
1972 Entire population of Istanbul is placed under 24 hour house arrest
1973 Helgafell volcano on island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1977 $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, due to their harmful effect on the earth's ozone layer

1983 TV series "The A-Team" with George Peppard and Mr T premieres on NBC

1996 The first version of the Java programming language released
2003 Final communication between Earth and NASA space probe Pioneer 10 then 7.6 billion miles (12.23 billion kilometers) from Earth

2016 8 museum workers from Egyptian Museum, Cairo referred for prosecution for reattaching Tutankhamun's beard with inappropriate glue

2017 Most expensive house in the US worth $250 million goes on the market in Bel Air, Los Angeles
2018 Twelve camels disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel beauty contest, Saudi Arabia after their owners used botox on their lips
2020 Voice of a 3,000 year old Egyptian priest recreated by scientists 3D printing his vocal tract published in "Scientific Reports"