On this day, Jan. 23

1845 Congress decided all national elections will be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1944 Private haulers, hired by Pittsburgh to collect accumulated garbage during a strike by municipal garbage truck drivers, operated under protection of an 80-member police squad after some trucks were attacked by roving pickets.

1978 Rock musician Terry Kath, a key member of the group Chicago, accidentally shot and killed himself after a party in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 31.

1999 The Bost Building in Homestead was recognized as a National Landmark for serving as the steelworkers’ headquarters during the Homestead Strike. August R. Carlino, executive director of the Steel Industry Heritage Corp., which owned the Bost Building, planned a $4 million renovation.

2009 President Barack Obama quietly ended the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money to international groups that performed abortions or provided information on the option. Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).

— Compiled by Rick Nowlin Today’s birthdays: Actress Chita Rivera, 86. Jazz musician Gary Burton, 76. Actor Rutger Hauer, 75. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jerry Lawson, 75. Actor Richard Dean Anderson, 69. Princess Caroline of Monaco, 62. TV host Norah O’Donnell, 45. Actress Tiffani Thiessen, 45. Actress Lindsey Kraft, 39. Christian rock musician Nick DePartee (Kutless), 34. Singeractress Rachel Crow, 21.

Thought for today: “The trouble is that hardly anybody in America goes to bed angry at night.”