Notable Historical Events on October 23rd
October 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
4004 |
Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher |
42 |
Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide. |
BC AD | |
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 two and demolishing the 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 |
Remnants of Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returns to Santander |
1641 |
Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster |
1642 |
Battle of Edgehill (Warwickshire): King Charles I beat English parliamentarian forces |
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 Duke of York (future James II of England) |
1681 |
French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg |
1684 |
Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted |
1690 |
Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking |
1694 |
American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec. |
1702 |
Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron |
1739 |
War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain. |
1760 |
First Jewish prayer books printed in North America |
1775 |
Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army |
1790 |
Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed) |
1803 |
English physicist John Dalton reads his essay on the absorption of gases by water and presents a series of atomic weights for 21 simple and compound elements at a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society |
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 Netherlands opens |
1854 |
The Times gives precise British positions in Crimea |
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 first 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 New York City demanding right to vote |
1917 |
1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I |
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 |
1920 |
African demonstrators shot in Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
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 Andrew Bonar Law forms government in United Kingdom |
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 |
1933 |
John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana. They take $75, 000 |
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 |
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. |
1935 |
Mackenzie King is elected as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time |
1941 |
Walt Disney's animation "Dumbo" released |
1942 |
First 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 |
First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau |
1943 |
Burma railway opens |
1944 |
First 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 |
1947 |
Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes |
1950 |
President Elpidio Quirino issued Executive Order No. 355 which replaced the National Land Settlement Administration with Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO) which takes over the responsibilities of the Agricultural Machinery Equipment Corporation and the Rice and Corn Production Administration |
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 |
First 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 |
First 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 |
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 |
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) |
1970 |
Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury; the 'Arms Trial' began on 28 May 1970 |
1971 |
WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins |
1971 |
Two female members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast |
1971 |
Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down |
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 |
1972 |
Loyalist paramilitaries carry out raid on an Ulster Defence Regiment |
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 |
1973 |
Arab oil embargo extended to the Netherlands |
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 |
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 US 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 |
Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in Belfast |
1993 |
Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara in Indian-controlled Kashmir |
1993 |
Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series |
1993 |
Joe Carter (Toronto Blue Jays) hits a World Series winning walk-off home run against the Philadelphia Phillies |
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 |
1998 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement. |
2000 |
"Monday Night Miracle", down 30-7 at the end of the third quarter, the New York Jets pulled together a rapid and improbable comeback with 4 touchdowns and a field goal in the fourth quarter, eventually defeating the Miami Dolphins 40-37 in overtime |
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. |
2008 |
Joe Sakic scores his final career goal (#625) against the Edmonton Oilers |
2009 |
The United Nations "Rotterdam Rules" convention regulating international maritime carriage of goods is ratified with its twentieth signature. |
2009 |
The UK markets had contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter against what was expected to be a period of growth, as a result of unexpectedly poor performance by the service sector |
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 |
2013 |
Boston Red Sox defeat St Louis Cardinals in game 1 of the MLB 2013 World Series |
2017 |
Japan's Abe to push pacifist constitution reform after strong election win |
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