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Top Song(s)
• Miley Cyrus - Flowers
• Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
• SZA - Kill Bill
• Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire
• Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red
Top Film(s)
• Oppenheimer
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Godzilla Minus One
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• The Holdovers
Best Selling Book(s)
• Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
• Happy Place - Emily Henry
• Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
• Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross
• Love, Theoretically - Ali Hazelwood
Famous Deaths
• January 3 - Walter Cunningham, American astronaut (Apollo 7)
• February 5 - Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (2001-2008)
• March 24 - Gordon Moore, American businessman and engineer who co-founded Intel
• April 19 - (Elmer) "Bud" Shuster, American politician (US Representative-R-PA, 1973-2001)
• May 10 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician (1st President of Ukraine, 1991-94)
• June 12 - Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician (Prime Minister of Italy, 1994-95, 2001-06, 2008-11)
• August 19 - John Warnock, American computer scientist, and businessman (co-founder of Adobe Systems)
• September 9 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician and Zulu prince (Chief Minister of KwaZulu 1972-94)
• October 16 - Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish politician, and diplomat, President of Finland (1994-2000)
• December 1 - Sandra Day O'Connor, American lawyer and judge, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- 2006)
Medical/Science/Technology
• A study affirms and explains why a moderate decrease in body temperature extends lifespan.
• Research shows neurons take up glucose (from food) and metabolize it by glycolysis.
• A global trend towards more rapid-onset "flash droughts" hindering forecasting is reported.
• The likely cause of grey hair is shown to be pigment-making cells losing their ability to mature into melanocytes.
• A study with mice shows that microplastics pass the blood–brain barrier (BBB), entering and accumulating in the brain.
• Astronomers release close-up global images, for the first time, of the Martian moon Deimos that were taken by the Mars Hope orbiter.
• The first gene silencing approach to Alzheimer's disease is reported, with a drug called BIIB080.
• A new brain-reading method for "semantic decoding" is demonstrated.
• A single-molecule valve is demonstrated, a breakthrough in nanoscale control of fluids.
• Drug company Eli Lilly reports that donanemab can slow the pace of Alzheimer's disease by 35%.
Political
• January 3 - The 118th United States Congress convenes following the 2022 midterm elections.
• January 5 - The South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down the state's six-week abortion ban, ruling it violates the state's constitution.
• January 6 – A sixteen-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocks a federal ban on bump stocks.
• January 8 - President Biden visits the Mexico–United States border for the first time during his presidency.
• January 12 – Attorney general Merrick Garland appoints Robert Hur to investigate mishandling of classified documents by President Biden.
• February 7 - President Biden gives his second official State of the Union Address to Congress.
• March 8 - Minnesota governor Tim Walz signs an executive order to protect gender-affirming healthcare.
• April 13 - Florida enacts legislation which bans most abortions after six weeks.
• May 11 – U.S. President Biden formally ends the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic in the country as a public health emergency.
• June 27 - The Supreme Court rules in a 6–3 decision against the implementation of the independent state legislature theory.
National
• January 7 - Five black police officers of the Memphis Police Department, severely beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop.
• February 4 - The suspected Chinese spy balloon is shot down by a missile off the coast of South Carolina.
• March 3 – Walgreens announces that it will not sell abortion pills in states where Republican officials threaten to take legal action.
• April 10 - Five people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky.
• May 3 - New York bans gas stoves and propane heating in new residential constructions.
• June 5 - Oklahoma approves the first ever religious charter school in the United States.
• July 2 - A small bag of cocaine is discovered in the West Wing of the White House, leading to a Secret Service investigation.
• August 23 - A shooting occurs at the historic biker bar Cook's Corner in Trabuco Canyon, California, leaving four dead.
• September 5 - New York City Local Law 18 comes into effect, which effectively bans Airbnb from doing business within city limits.
• October 3 – Kevin McCarthy is ousted as Speaker of the House, marking the first removal of a speaker by a vote in the House.
Worldwide
• January 15 – Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashes during final approach into Pokhara, Nepal, killing all 72 people on board.
• February 21 – Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US.
• March 10 - The 2023 Chinese presidential election is held with the National People's Congress unanimously re-electing Xi Jinping.
• April 4 – Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO, doubling the alliance's border with Russia.
• May 4 – A series of floods and landslides strikes villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in over 400 deaths.
• June 2 – A train collision in Odisha, India results in at least 296 deaths and more than 1,200 others injured.
• July 9 -New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, increasing bilateral trade.
• August 21 - 2023 Canadian wildfires: 68% of the Northwest Territories are forced to evacuate to other parts of the country due to wildfires.
• September 2 – The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1, India's first solar observation mission.
• November 23 – Riots broke out in Dublin, Ireland after a mass stabbing on Parnell Square East which injured 4 people.