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October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 69 days remaining.
Events
4100 BC-AD 1899 4004 BC - The universe was created , according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.42 BC - Roman Republican civil wars : Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus 's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian . He commits suicide.AD 425 - Valentinian III elevated as Roman Emperor . He was only 6 years old. 1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole , reluctantly declares war on Spain .1812 - Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte , claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris. De Malet was executed on October 29 .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 ).1855 - Kansas Free State forces set up a competing government under their Topeka, Kansas constitution, which outlaws slavery in the United States territory .1864 - American Civil War : Battle of Westport - Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Stirling Price at Westport , near Kansas City .
1900-1999 1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies the 14-bis in the first officially-recognised heavier-than-air flight at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris , France .1911 - First use of aircraft in war : an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to survey Turkish lines during the Turco-Italian War .1915 - Woman's suffrage : In New York City , 25,000-33,000 women march up Fifth Avenue to demand the right to vote .1929 - Great Depression : After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.1941 - World War II : Georgy Zhukov assumes command of Red Army efforts to stop the German advance into Russia .1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein starts - At El Alamein in Egypt , British forces begin a major offensive against Axis forces.1944 - World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf begins - The largest naval battle in history begins in Leyte Gulf , the Red Army enters Hungary 1956 - Thousands of Hungarians protest Soviet influence and occupation in their nation (Hungarian Revolution is put down on November 4 ).1958 - Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters The Smurfs 1965 - Vietnam War : Operation Silver Bayonet - The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launch a new operation, seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleku Province in II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands)1973 - Watergate Scandal : US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations about the scandal.1976 - US president Jimmy Carter , in a Playboy magazine interview, states that "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."1983 - Lebanon Civil War : U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut hit by truck bomb, killing 241. French barracks also hit the same morning, killing 58.1992 - Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.1996 - The civil trial of former American football player O.J. Simpson opens in Santa Monica, California .1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land-for-peace" agreement.1998 - Abortion in the United States : In Amherst, New York , abortion doctor Barnett Slepian is killed by a sniper in his home.
2000-2099 2001 - The American President Bill Clinton .2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theatergoers hostage.2003 - George W. Bush addresses a joint sitting of the houses of the Australian Parliament and is shouted down by Green Party senators Kerry Nettle and Bob Brown .2004 - Brazil 's 'Operation Cajuana' launched its first rocket into space, the VSB-30 just 14 months after its space program was devastated by a deadly launch pad accident.2004 - At the IHSA Regionals meet in Charleston, Illinois , Urbana High School's Cross Country team qualified for IHSA Sectionals for the first time in seven years, and for the second time in thirty-seven years.
Births
1700-1899 1762 - Samuel Morey , inventor (d. 1843 )1790 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich , American clergyman, educator and lexicographer (d. 1860)1796 - Stefano Franscini , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1857 )1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse , lexicographer and encyclopedist1835 - Adlai E. Stevenson , Vice President of the United States 1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis , American chemist1892 - Gummo Marx , actor, comedian, Marx Brothers (d. 1977 )
1900-1999 1905 - Felix Bloch , Swiss physicist 1906 - Gertrude Ederle , first woman to swim the English Channel 1909 - Zellig Harris , American linguist1923 - Frank Sutton , actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. 1974 )1925 - Johnny Carson , American television host (d. 2005 )1931 - Jim Bunning , American baseball pitcher and senator 1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez , golf champion1940 - Pelé , Brazilian football player1942 - Michael Crichton , writer1946 - Melquiades Martinez "Mel", Florida senator 2005 -1954 - Ang Lee , director, producer1956 - Dwight Yoakam , country music performer1959 - Weird Al Yankovic , American musical parodist1959 - Sam Raimi , director, producer1962 - Doug Flutie , Canadian football and American football quarterback.1975 - Keith Van Horn , American basketball player.1987 - Clara Guibourg, Swedish underground celebrity and philosopher .
Deaths
100 BC-AD 1999
2000-2099
Holidays October 22 - October 24 - November 23 - September 23 -- listing of all days
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October 1999 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (516 words)
October 12 - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attempts to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf and install ISI director Khwaja Ziauddin in his place. October 12 - The 6 billionth person in the world, according to the UN is born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. October 31 - Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
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