This Day in History for 23rd October

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 174

4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher
42 BC - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
425 - Valentinian III is elevated to Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
502 - The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
585 - Burgundy king Guntram opens synod of Mâcon (Mastico)
787 - Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea
1086 - Battle of az-Zallaqah: Army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI
1091 - Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart of London killing 2 and demolishing the then wooden London Bridge
1157 - The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1229 - Otto II becomes earl of Gelre
1520 - King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V
1588 - Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returns to Santander
1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster
1642 - Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
1644 - Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
1668 - Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1679 - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1681 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg
1684 - Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
The Sun King Louis XIV 1690 - Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking
1694 - American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec.
1702 - -24] Battle in Bay of Vigo: Neth/Engl fleet destroy Span/French fleet
1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1760 - 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US
1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1805 - Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1812 - Failed coup against emperor Napoleon
1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1814 - 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced
1853 - Maastricht-Aken railway in Neth opens
1854 - The Times give precise British positions in Krim
1864 - Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price
1867 - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1871 - Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1876 - New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1884 - 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
1886 - St Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10
1888 - Pelham Bay Park in Bronx, vested
1890 - Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
1893 - C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons)
1905 - Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in NYC
1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1910 - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1910 - Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs
1915 - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 - 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1917 - 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin 1917 - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky
1919 - Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1920 - Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
1921 - Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
1921 - Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno
1922 - Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in NYC
1922 - Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England
1923 - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
1923 - Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
1927 - Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
1932 - "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1932 - Pieter G Marais, S Afr minister of Education/Development aid
1934 - Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)
1935 - Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP
1935 - Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1935 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
1942 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 - German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
1942 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1943 - 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1943 - Burma railway opens
1944 - 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
1944 - Gulf of Leyte battle begin
1944 - Soviet army invades Hungary
1944 - Vice-adm Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract
1946 - UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
1947 - NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
Animator Walter Elias Disney 1947 - Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
1953 - France grants Laos' sovereignty
1953 - German FR applies to NATO
1953 - WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1954 - German FR joins NATO
1954 - Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
1954 - WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time
1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 - Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary
1956 - Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1957 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 - De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"
1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak 1958 - USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump - An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1959 - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
1961 - "Kwamina" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 32 performances
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 195

1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
1516 - Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524)
1543 - Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist
1634 - Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)
1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde)
1705 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
1713 - Peter Burmannus Secundus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch classicist
1715 - Peter II Aleksejevitsj, Saint Petersburg, tsar of Russia (1727-30)
1752 - Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
1766 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
1767 - H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer
1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
1773 - Pietro Generali, composer
1788 - Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston)
1790 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
1794 - Joseph Panny, composer
1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
1797 - John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51)
1801 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer
1805 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
1805 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
1810 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)
1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
1815 - João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
1819 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer
1820 - James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1824 - Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1828 - Turner Ashby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1835 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97)
1844 - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
1844 - Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche)
1846 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
1851 - Guillaume Couture, composer
1852 - Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer
1865 - Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
1868 - Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
1869 - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
1870 - Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948)
1873 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1876 - Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1880 - Una O'Connor, Belfast Ireland, actress (David Copperfield)
1885 - Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
1888 - Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1893 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Peau d'Ane)
1893 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1894 - Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
1896 - André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
1899 - Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1900 - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (England's Bodyline captain)
1902 - Otmar Nussio, composer
1902 - Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist
1903 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
1904 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
1905 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1952)
1906 - Gertrude Ederle, NYC, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1906 - Miriam Gideon, composer
1910 - Hayden Rorke, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
1910 - Sally O'Neil, Bayonne NJ, actress (Beggar's Holiday, Moth)
1914 - Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
1917 - Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)
1918 - James Daly, Wisc, actor (Medical Center)
1918 - Peggy Moran, actress (Double Date, Horror Island)
1920 - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
1921 - Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus)
1922 - Coleen Gray, Staplehurst Nebraska, actress (Apache Drums)
1922 - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot
1923 - Frank Sutton, Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
1923 - Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
1925 - Johnny Carson, Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer/conductor (Never on Sunday)
1925 - Nanni Loy, film director
1927 - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Roxy)
1927 - Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (Conversations with the Devil)
1928 - Alexander Tanev, composer
1928 - Bella Darvi, [Bayla Wegier], Sosnowiec Poland, actress (Racers)
1928 - Patrick Peter Sacco, composer
1930 - Gerard Blain, Paris France, actor (Hatari)
1931 - Diana Dors, [Fluck], Swindon England, actress (Berserk!, Steaming)
1931 - Jim Bunning, Phillies pitcher (perfect Game vs Mets 1965)/(Rep-R-Ky)
1931 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
1932 - Dimitra Arliss, actress (Rich Man Poor Man II)
1932 - Vasily Belov, Northern Krai,USSR, author (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), (d. 2012)
1933 - Tom Dewdney, cricket pace bowler (WI of 50's)
1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Rio Piedras PR, PGA golfer (1972 Byron Nelson)
1935 - Zbigniew Rudzinski, composer
1936 - Barry Sinclair, cricketer (21 Tests for NZ in the 60's, 3 centuries)
1936 - Philip Kaufman, director (Right Stuff, Henry & June)
1938 - John Heinz, (Sen-R-PA, 1977- )
1938 - Jordan Christopher, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Secrets of Midland Heights)
1939 - Charlie Foxx, US songwriter/soul singer (Mockingbird)
1939 - Ellie Greenwich, rocker
1940 - Freddie Marsden, Liverpool, rock drummer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
Brazilian Football Legend Pele (1940) 1940 - Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento], Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Brazilian footballer (Player of the Century - 1281 goals in 1363 games)
1941 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (England bat whose career was cut short)
1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 3

1918 - Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)
1996 - American caricaturist Al Hirshfeld (93) weds Louise Kerz
2010 - Singer-songwriter Katy Perry (25) weds actor-comedian Russell Brand (35) at luxury resort Aman-i-Khas in Northern India
2010 - Singer-songwriter Katy Perry (25) weds actor-comedian Russell Brand (35) at luxury resort Aman-i-Khas in Northern India

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 94 of 94

42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
1260 - Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1450 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1602 - Franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
1753 - Columban Praelisauer, composer, dies at 50
1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1782 - Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73
1799 - William Paca, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58
1801 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
1806 - Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58
1869 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72
1872 - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1886 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer, dies at 67
1890 - Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
1892 - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52
1899 - W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
1901 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
1903 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
1915 - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
1921 - John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
1925 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer, dies at 50
1928 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies
1929 - Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
1935 - Abe Landau, US gangster, murdered
1935 - Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
1935 - Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
1936 - (Marie) Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Bitter Pill), dies at 80
1939 - Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1942 - Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies
1942 - Ralph Rainger, composer, dies at 41
1944 - Hana Brady, Holocaust victim
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1948 - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71
1950 - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
1952 - Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest), dies at 31
1953 - Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83
1954 - Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76
1957 - Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86
1957 - Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 of a heart attack
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1963 - Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, architect/urban developer, dies at 78
1966 - Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
1969 - Tommy Edwards, rocker, dies at 47
1975 - Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43
1975 - Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
1976 - Leonard Lee, US R&B-singer (Shirley & Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40
1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1982 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist, dies at 52
1983 - Jessica Savage, Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1983 - Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1984 - David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 - Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
1986 - Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92
1986 - Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
1991 - Lance Baker, dies at 31
1992 - Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies
1994 - Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
1994 - William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
1996 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67
1996 - Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91
1996 - Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47
1996 - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
2001 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2005 - William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
2007 - John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur, Crazy John's mobile phones (b. 1965)
2007 - Lim Goh Tong, Founder of Genting Group (b. 1918)
2008 - Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948)
2010 - Francis Crippen, American long-distance swimmer (b. 1984)
2010 - Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 1942)
2011 - Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
2011 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, inventor of the Lisp programming language.(b. 1927)