Today in Military History:
January 23
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1879 | Second day of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War. 45 British hold off several thousand Zulus. |
| | 1943 | Combined Australian and American forces capture Sanananda, ending the Battle of the Kokoda Trail. Over the course of the battle, outnumbered 2:1, Australians killed 16,000 Japanese. |
| | 1944 | Allies land at Anzio, Italy. |
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