Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 23

1910: birth of Django Reinhardt, very influential Roma jazz guitarist
1930: the first page of Hergé's comic strip Quick & Flupke appears in Le Petit Vingtième
1960: Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh become the first persons to reach the deepest point on the Earth's surface, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
1978: Baron Édouard-Jean Empain is kidnapped and has his little finger amputated, only to be freed two months later