This Day in History for 23rd October (Part 2)

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Historical Events

Events 101 - 174 of 174

1962 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
1962 - WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in NYC
1964 - Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1964 - Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
1966 - Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf
1967 - "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances
1967 - NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
1968 - "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances
1968 - Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1969 - "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances
1970 - Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
1971 - WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins
1972 - "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances
1972 - Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
1972 - WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 - UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1973 - Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president
1974 - Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles & Locker
1974 - Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1975 - Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola
1975 - Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1977 - 7th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
1977 - 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
1977 - Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
1977 - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
1978 - CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 - China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
Musician Sid Vicious 1978 - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC
1979 - Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
1980 - "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances
1980 - McCosker (168) & Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW v WA
1980 - Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
1981 - US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 - 13th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00
1983 - 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
1983 - 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
1983 - Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
1984 - Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
1984 - NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1984 - STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1987 - Dutch government gives Fokker's Aircraft Ÿ212 million credit
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1988 - Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate
1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1989 - George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
1989 - Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended
1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1989 - William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London
1990 - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris
1991 - Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1991 - Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1992 - Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
1993 - 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast
1993 - Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir
1993 - Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series
1994 - 3rd Solheim Cup: US beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier WV
1996 - NY Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves 8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win
1997 - "Triumph of Love," opens at Royale Theater NYC
1997 - At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out
1997 - Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts
1997 - Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat 1998 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.
2001 - Apple releases the iPod.
2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 - A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2009 - The United Nations "Rotterdam Rules" convention regulating international maritime carriage of goods is ratified with its twentieth signature.
2011 - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2012 - 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 195 of 195

1941 - Mel Winkler, American actor
1942 - Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)
1942 - Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker), (d. 2008)
1944 - Warren Burton, Chicago IL, actor (Jason Dunlap-Another World
1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1946 - Gerda Lenten-Havertong, Surinam, Dutch singer/actress (Sesame St)
1946 - Miklos Nemeth, Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946 - Mel Martinez, American politician
1947 - Greg Ridley, rocker
1948 - Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur
1948 - Brian Ross, American journalist
1948 - Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
1949 - Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, British musician (Motörhead)
1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer
1950 - Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1951 - Michael Rupert, Denver Colo, actor (Pasadena Playhouse)
1951 - Charly García, Argentine singer
1951 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
1952 - Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005)
Novelist Michael Crichton (1942) 1954 - Ang Lee, director (Ice Storm, Wedding Banquet, Sense & Sensibility)
1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
1956 - Betsy Nagelsen, St Petersburg FL, tennis star
1956 - Darrell Pace, Cin Ohio, archer (Oly-2 gold/silver-1976, 84, 88)
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk Man)
1957 - Louann Fernald San Antonio TX, playmate (Jun, 1979)
1957 - Sue Ertl, LPGA golfer
1958 - Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author
1959 - Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], California, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1959 - Sam Raimi, actor (Indian Summer, Thou Shalt Not Kill Except)
1960 - Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
1960 - Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author
1961 - Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer
1961 - Don and Ron Harris, American professional wrestlers
1961 - Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
Parody Singer and Comedian Weird Al Yankovic (1959) 1962 - Beatie Edney, London England, actress (Diary of a Mad Old Man)
1962 - Christo van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star
1962 - Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer (vuurtorenpostzegels)
1962 - Doug Flutie, CFL/NFL quarterback (Argonauts, Generals, Bears, Pats)
1962 - Jaime Yzaga, Peru, tennis star
1962 - Mike Tomczak, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1963 - David Bedard, Montreal QUE, 3m springboard diver (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
1963 - Katherine Hushaw, Anaheim Ca, playmate (Oct, 1986)
1965 - Al Leiter, Toms River NJ, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Mets)
1965 - Augusten Burroughs, American writer
1966 - Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
1967 - Jaime Yzaga, Lima Peru, tennis star
1967 - Michael Philbrick, CFL defensive tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
1968 - Bettina Fulco Villella, Mar Del Plata Arg, tennis star (1993 Futures)
1968 - Kendall Gammon, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Kevin Henry, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Maggie Philgence, St Lucia Castries VI, WPVA (Oly Fest-gold-91)
1969 - Brooke Theiss, California, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good & Evil)
1969 - Kristine Bailey, Livonia Mich, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1970 - Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster
1971 - Alai Kalaniuvalu, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Daryl Price, defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Patrise Alexander, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Tiffeny Milbrett, Portland Oregon, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1973 - Blaine McElmurry, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Mac Cozier, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Shawn Wooden, free safety (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Sjoerd Sanders, soccer player (PSV/MVV)
1974 - Derek Landy, Lusk, Ireland, author ( Skulduggery Pleasant series)
1974 - Beatrice Roini Liua Faumuina, NZ, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Dani Tyler, Denver Colo, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Kaleena Kiff, Santa Monica California, actress (Patti-Love Sidney)
1974 - Sander Westerveld, soccer player (FC Twente)
1975 - Keith Van Horn, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1975 - Odalys García, Cuban actress
1975 - Jessicka, American artist
1976 - Julie Howard, Brantford ON, 100m/200m backstroker (Olympics-27-92, 96)
1976 - Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
1978 - Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
1978 - Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
1979 - Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
1979 - Jorge Solís, Mexican professional boxer
1980 - Jade Davidson, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 - Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
1981 - Ben Francisco, American baseball player
1982 - Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
1983 - Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer
1983 - Josh Strickland, American entertainer
1984 - Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
1985 - James Kotecki, American political blogger
1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
1986 - Jake Robinson, English footballer
1986 - Jessica Stroup, American Actress
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 - Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player
1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer
1991 - Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan