January 1, 2023, Series Premiere of Kaleidoscope
January 1, 2023,
January 1, 2023, Australia and Canada announce that they will require travelers from China to present a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter their countries from January 5. (CTV News)
January 1, 2023, Croatia adopts the euro and enters the Schengen Area. (AFP via Macau Business)
January 1, 2023, Canada enacts a law prohibiting foreigners, except for immigrants and permanent residents, from acquiring residential areas in the country for two years in response to a real-estate bubble. (CNN Business)
January 2, 2023, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffers from a cardiac arrest during a Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals and is taken to the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center by ambulance. The NFL subsequently suspends the game as a result. (CBS Sports)
January 2, 2023,
January 2, 2023,
January 2, 2023,
January 2, 2023, Four people are killed and eight others are injured when two helicopters collide near the Sea World theme park in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. (ABC News Australia)
January 3, 2023, The 118th United States Congress begins, with the House Speaker election heading to multiple ballots for the first time in 100 years after Kevin McCarthy fails to receive the required number of votes on the first three ballots. (ABC News)
January 3, 2023, Five gunmen and two members of the security forces are killed during a shootout while searching for 30 inmates who escaped two days ago during an armed attack on a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Ten prison guards and seven inmates were killed during the attack. (BBC News)
January 3, 2023, Michael Smith wins the PDC World Darts Championship after defeating Michael van Gerwen 7–4 in the final, winning his first world title and reaching world number one on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time. (Sky Sports)
January 4, 2023, Actors Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, who starred in the 1968 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, file a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against Paramount Pictures for US$500 million, alleging sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and fraud, and for being filmed in the nude without their knowledge. (AFP)
January 4, 2023, Meta Platforms is fined €390 million by the European Union, claiming that the company's collection of personal data from Facebook and Instagram accounts for personalized ads was in violation of EU privacy laws. (Reuters)
January 4, 2023, Three adults and five children are found dead inside a home in Enoch, Utah, United States, after police conduct a welfare check. (The New York Times)
January 4, 2023, The National Hurricane Center publishes a new Tropical Cyclone Report for Hurricane Katrina, lowering the death toll from over 1,800 to 1,392. (National Hurricane Center via Twitter)
January 5, 2023,
January 5, 2023,
January 5, 2023,
January 5, 2023,
January 5, 2023, The army arrests Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of incarcerated drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. The arrest is followed by state-wide unrest, with many schools and airports closed. Ten soldiers and 19 gang members are killed during the unrest. (BBC News)
January 5, 2023, Greece announces that travelers from China will require a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter the country. (Reuters)
January 5, 2023, The funeral for Pope emeritus Benedict XVI takes place in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, with at least 50,000 attendees. (AP)
January 6, 2023, Release of M3gan
January 6, 2023, Release of The Old Way
January 6, 2023, Season 2 Premiere of BMF
January 6, 2023,
January 6, 2023,
January 6, 2023, Mexico's secretary of defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval reports that a total of 29 people, 19 gang members and ten military personnel, were killed during the operation which ended in the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán. (Reuters)
January 6, 2023, The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization reports that international food prices reached a record high in 2022 amid ongoing concerns of food shortages. (Reuters)
January 7, 2023, Kevin McCarthy is elected speaker of the United States House of Representatives after fifteen rounds of voting, the most rounds since 1860. (BBC News)
January 8, 2023, Series Premiere of Alert: Missing Persons Unit
January 8, 2023, Series Premiere of Mayfair Witches
January 8, 2023, Pro-Bolsonaro protesters storm the National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court, and the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília, Brazil. (France 24)
January 8, 2023,
January 8, 2023,
January 9, 2023, Series Premiere of Koala Man
January 9, 2023, One person is killed and eight others are injured after a magnitude 7.6–7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of eastern Indonesia, causing damage to buildings, and shaking buildings as far away as Darwin, Australia. (Maluku Terkini)
January 9, 2023, China reopens its borders for unrestricted travel, marking the repeal of the country's last Zero-COVID policy. (Bloomberg)
January 9, 2023, Around 1,200 supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are arrested following yesterday's riots in Brasília. (The New York Times)
January 9, 2023, Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne fails to reach the Low Earth orbit with a payload of several small satellites after the rocket suffered a second-stage engine anomaly on its ascent to space, resulting in the loss of the payload. The mission, which launched from Spaceport Cornwall in South West England, would have been the first rocket launched from United Kingdom territory. (AFP via Hindustan Times)
January 9, 2023, An X1.9-class solar flare erupts from an active sunspot while facing Earth causing temporary radio blackouts in parts of South America, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The source is "hyperactive sunspot AR3184", which also caused a X1.2-class solar flare on January 5. (Space.com)
January 9, 2023, In American football, the Georgia Bulldogs repeat as national champions, defeating the TCU Horned Frogs in a 65–7 blowout. (NPR)
January 10, 2023, Release of Prince Harry Memoir Spare
January 10, 2023, Microsoft ends support for Windows 8.1 and security updates for Windows 7. (Tech Crunch)
January 11, 2023, For the first time since 9/11, the FAA issues a nationwide ground stop in the United States following the failure of the FAA's NOTAM system. (CNBC)
January 11, 2023, Aides to the President of the United States Joe Biden discover a second set of classified documents besides those found on Monday in a Washington, D.C. office. The White House acknowledges the discovery. (NBC News)
January 11, 2023, The launch of an unmanned ABL Space Systems RS1 rocket fails at the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, United States. The rocket crashes during the launch, damaging the launch platform and destroying the rocket and its cargo. (Anchorage Daily News)
January 12, 2023, Series Premiere of Velma
January 12, 2023, Season 2 Premiere of Vikings: Valhalla
January 12, 2023,
January 12, 2023, The National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina records a 94.8% inflation rate for its economy in 2022, the highest since 1991. (AFP via Buenos Aires Times)
January 12, 2023, A tornado outbreak in the US states of Alabama and Georgia damages several towns and kills at least six people. (USA Today)
January 12, 2023, Swedish mining company LKAB discovers Europe's largest known deposit of rare-earth elements in Kiruna, Sweden. (Reuters)
January 12, 2023, The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations reports an average global temperature of about 1.15 °C above pre-industrial levels in 2022, confirming that the last eight years were the highest temperatures recorded on Earth since records began. (AFP via The Philippine Star)
January 13, 2023, Release of House Party
January 13, 2023, Release of Plane
January 13, 2023, Release of Sick
January 13, 2023, Release of Dog Gone
January 13, 2023, Release of Skinamarink
January 13, 2023, Season 2 Premiere of Your Honor
January 13, 2023,
January 13, 2023, The New York County Courthouse issues the maximum allowable $1.6 million fine on the Trump Organization, former president Donald Trump's conglomerate, for tax fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying business records. (AFP via France 24)
January 13, 2023, The British government announces a ban on single-use plastic cutlery, plates, polystyrene cups, bowls, and balloon sticks in England beginning in October as part of an effort to reduce plastic pollution. The ban will apply to all retailers, takeaways, and food vendors. (BBC News)
January 14, 2023, American R'Bonney Gabriel is crowned Miss Universe by her predecessor, Indian Harnaaz Sandhu. (CNN)
January 15, 2023, Series Premiere of The Last of Us
January 15, 2023, Season 3 Premiere of The Godfather of Harlem
January 15, 2023, At least 69 people are killed when a plane crashes in Pokhara, Gandaki Province, Nepal. The plane with 72 people on board had departed from Kathmandu. (BBC News)
January 15, 2023, President of the United States Joe Biden issues a major disaster declaration for the state of California following major flooding. (The Guardian)
January 16, 2023, Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the most wanted men in Italy and Europe, is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, after 30 years on the run. (BBC News)
January 16, 2023, A polar bear attacks and kills a woman and her son in Wales, Alaska, United States, after charging several others, in the first fatal attack since the early 1980s. The bear is shot and killed following the attack. (CNN)
January 17, 2023, There's Something Wrong With The Children
January 17, 2023, The National Bureau of Statistics reports that China's population, the largest in the world, declined for the first time since 1960, with a population decrease of 850,000 people reported in the past year. (AFP via France 24)
January 17, 2023, The World Tourism Organization reports that the figures for international tourist arrivals worldwide had doubled in 2022 compared to the previous year, citing the easing of COVID-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions. (AFP via RFI)
January 18, 2023, Microsoft announces that it will cut 10,000 jobs, around 5% of its global workforce, amid a slowdown in consumer spending. (BBC News)
January 18, 2023, Fourteen people are killed and 25 others are injured in a helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Interior minister Denys Monastyrsky, deputy minister of internal affairs Yevhen Yenin, and state secretary of internal affairs Yurii Lubkovych are among those killed. (Al Jazeera)
January 18, 2023, At least 150 people are injured by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Khoy, Khoy County, West Azerbaijan, Iran. (MehrNews)
January 19, 2023, Series Premiere of That 90's Show
January 19, 2023,
January 19, 2023,
January 19, 2023,
January 19, 2023, The United States reaches its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion, requiring the Treasury Department to suspend the issuance of new Treasury securities and take extraordinary measures to prevent a default. (CNN)
January 19, 2023, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as co-CEO, having served in the position since its founding in 1997. Greg Peters is selected to succeed him. (BBC News)
January 20, 2023, Release of The Missing
January 20, 2023, Release of The Son
January 20, 2023, Release of When You Finish Saving The World
January 20, 2023, Release of Detective Knight: Independence
January 21, 2023, Ten people are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting at a dance studio after Lunar New Year celebrations in Monterey Park, California, United States. The suspect, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, escapes and later commits suicide. (Los Angeles Times)
January 23, 2023, Seven people are killed and one other person is injured in a shooting spree in Half Moon Bay, California, United States. A suspect is taken into custody afterwards. (San Francisco Chronicle)
January 23, 2023, A new study by seismologists at Peking University in Beijing says that Earth's inner core stopped rotating faster than the rest of the planet in 2009. (Nature)
January 23, 2023, An eleventh person dies in the hospital from injuries sustained in Saturday's mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, United States. (Los Angeles Times)
January 24, 2023,
January 24, 2023,
January 24, 2023,
January 24, 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announces that Germany will send Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, and will also allow other operators of the tanks, such as Poland, to send them to Ukraine. (Reuters)
January 24, 2023, At least one person is killed and two others are injured by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Bajura and Bajhang Districts, Nepal. (MyRepublica)
January 24, 2023, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces that the Doomsday Clock has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight, largely due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. (NPR)
January 25, 2023, President of the United States Joe Biden announces that the United States will supply Ukraine with 31 M1 Abrams main battle tanks. (CNBC)
January 25, 2023, UNESCO places the ruins of the Kingdom of Saba in modern-day Yemen, the historic center of Odesa, Ukraine, and the Rachid Karameh International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon on its list of World Heritage Sites in Danger. UNESCO cites ongoing conflicts in the former two and lack of funding due to the Lebanese liquidity crisis for the latter as the reasons for their inclusion. (NPR)
January 25, 2023, The Bank of Canada raises its benchmark interest rate to 4.5 percent, the highest since the 2007–2008 financial crisis, amid high levels of inflation and vacancies affecting the Canadian economy. (Financial Post)
January 26, 2023, Release of Teen Wolf: The Movie
January 26, 2023, Series Premiere of Wolfpack
January 26, 2023, Series Premiere of Poker Face
January 26, 2023,
January 26, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden grants a two-year extension to the Deferred Enforced Departure immigration status of Hong Kong residents, citing increasing tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China. (AFP via GMA News Online)
January 27, 2023, Release of Shotgun Wedding
January 27, 2023, Release of Fear
January 27, 2023, Release of Maybe I do
January 27, 2023, Release of Infinity Pool
January 27, 2023, Release of You People
January 27, 2023, Series Premiere of Shrinking
January 27, 2023, A radioactive capsule is missing along a 1,400-kilometre stretch of highway in Western Australia. (ABC News Australia)
January 27, 2023, Authorities in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, release footage of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being violently assaulted by multiple Memphis Police Department officers during a traffic stop on January 7. (AP)
January 27, 2023, Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department announces that all products containing cannabidiol will be banned as of February 1 and that the chemical will be classified in the same category as heroin and cocaine. (South China Morning Post)
January 28, 2023, Three people are killed and 816 others are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Khoy, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. (Al Jazeera)
January 30, 2023, Season 1 Premiere of The Watchful Eye
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