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Events on the 23rd of October in history

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23 Oct 2042 Liberators' civil war: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
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23 Oct 0425 Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.
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23 Oct 0501 The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
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23 Oct 0787 Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea
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23 Oct 1086 Battle of Zalaka: Alfonso VI vs. Almoravids
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23 Oct 1086 At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
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23 Oct 1157 The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
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23 Oct 1229 Otto II becomes Earl of Gelre
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23 Oct 1295 The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
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23 Oct 1520 King Carlos I crowned, German Emperor Charles V
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23 Oct 1641 Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
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23 Oct 1642 Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs. English parliament
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23 Oct 1642 Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
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23 Oct 1644 Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Admiral Thijssen beats Denen
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23 Oct 1668 Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
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23 Oct 1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
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23 Oct 1681 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg
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23 Oct 1684 Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
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23 Oct 1690 Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking
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23 Oct 1694 British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phips, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
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23 Oct 1707 The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
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23 Oct 1739 War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
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23 Oct 1760 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US
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23 Oct 1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
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23 Oct 1790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
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23 Oct 1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
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23 Oct 1812 Failed coup against Emperor Napoleon
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23 Oct 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 is now the commandant of Paris.
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23 Oct 1814 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
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23 Oct 1824 1st steam locomotive is introduced
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23 Oct 1850 The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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23 Oct 1853 Maastricht-Aken railway in the Netherlands opens
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23 Oct 1854 The Times give precise British positions in Krim
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23 Oct 1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
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23 Oct 1864 Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price
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23 Oct 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Westport: Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
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23 Oct 1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
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23 Oct 1867 Seventy-two Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
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23 Oct 1870 Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
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23 Oct 1871 Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
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23 Oct 1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
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23 Oct 1884 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats New York Mets (AA) 6-0
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23 Oct 1886 St. Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10
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23 Oct 1888 Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
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23 Oct 1890 Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
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23 Oct 1890 The opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
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23 Oct 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
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23 Oct 1910 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
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23 Oct 1910 Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers / 100 bathtubs
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23 Oct 1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
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23 Oct 1911 First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines.
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23 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
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23 Oct 1915 Women's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
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23 Oct 1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
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23 Oct 1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
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23 Oct 1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WWI
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23 Oct 1917 Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin and Trotsky
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23 Oct 1917 Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
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23 Oct 1918 Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)
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23 Oct 1920 Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
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23 Oct 1921 Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
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23 Oct 1922 Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England
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23 Oct 1923 Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
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23 Oct 1923 Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
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23 Oct 1927 Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
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23 Oct 1927 City of Netanya, Israel founded
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23 Oct 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.
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23 Oct 1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
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23 Oct 1932 Pieter G Marais, South African Minister of Education / Development aid
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23 Oct 1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
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23 Oct 1934 Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)
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23 Oct 1935 Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP
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23 Oct 1935 Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament
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23 Oct 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.
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23 Oct 1939 The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine "Betty" Bomber makes its maiden flight.
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23 Oct 1941 World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
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23 Oct 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
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23 Oct 1942 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
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23 Oct 1942 German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
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23 Oct 1942 World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
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23 Oct 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").
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23 Oct 1942 World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
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23 Oct 1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
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23 Oct 1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
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23 Oct 1943 Burma railway opens
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23 Oct 1944 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
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23 Oct 1944 Gulf of Leyte battle begin
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23 Oct 1944 World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
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23 Oct 1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
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23 Oct 1945 Jackie Robinson signs Montr
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23 Oct 1946 The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
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23 Oct 1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
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23 Oct 1947 Husband and wife Dr Carl Cori and Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
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23 Oct 1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
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23 Oct 1953 German FR applies to NATO
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23 Oct 1953 WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
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23 Oct 1954 Britain, England, France and the USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
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23 Oct 1954 German FR joins NATO
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23 Oct 1954 Pakistan Governor-General Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
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23 Oct 1954 WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Oct 1955 Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time
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23 Oct 1955 Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
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23 Oct 1956 Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
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23 Oct 1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
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23 Oct 1956 Hungarian Revolution began
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23 Oct 1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
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23 Oct 1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
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23 Oct 1958 De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"
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23 Oct 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.
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23 Oct 1958 The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine.
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23 Oct 1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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23 Oct 1958 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
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23 Oct 1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
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23 Oct 1961 "Kwamina" opens at 54th St. Theater NYC for 32 performances
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23 Oct 1962 Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis
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23 Oct 1962 WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
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23 Oct 1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
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23 Oct 1964 Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
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23 Oct 1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
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23 Oct 1965 Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
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23 Oct 1966 Sandra Spuzich / Jack Rule wins Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf
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23 Oct 1967 "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances
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23 Oct 1967 New Jersey Americans (later New York / New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game
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23 Oct 1967 NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
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23 Oct 1968 "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances
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23 Oct 1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 seconds)
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23 Oct 1969 "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances
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23 Oct 1970 Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
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23 Oct 1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)
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23 Oct 1971 WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida (ABC) begins
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23 Oct 1972 "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances
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23 Oct 1972 Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
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23 Oct 1972 WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Oct 1972 Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
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23 Oct 1973 Yankee GM and President Lee MacPhail named AL President
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23 Oct 1973 The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
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23 Oct 1973 A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
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23 Oct 1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
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23 Oct 1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
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23 Oct 1975 Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola
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23 Oct 1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
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23 Oct 1977 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
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23 Oct 1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
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23 Oct 1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve the new Canal treaties
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23 Oct 1978 CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
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23 Oct 1978 China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
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23 Oct 1979 Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
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23 Oct 1980 "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances
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23 Oct 1980 Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
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23 Oct 1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
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23 Oct 1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
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23 Oct 1983 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
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23 Oct 1983 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
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23 Oct 1983 Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
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23 Oct 1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
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23 Oct 1983 Truck bomb in Beirut kills 241 US soldiers
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23 Oct 1984 Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
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23 Oct 1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
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23 Oct 1984 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
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23 Oct 1988 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
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23 Oct 1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
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23 Oct 1989 Hungary proclaims itself a Republic and declares communist rule ended
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23 Oct 1989 The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
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23 Oct 1989 Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the nordic countries until then.
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23 Oct 1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
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23 Oct 1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
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23 Oct 1991 "Les Miserables, " opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris
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23 Oct 1991 Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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23 Oct 1991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
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23 Oct 1993 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast
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23 Oct 1993 Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir
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23 Oct 1993 Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series
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23 Oct 1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. Ulster loyalists retaliate a week later with the Greysteel massacre.
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23 Oct 1994 3rd Solheim Cup: US beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier, West Virginia
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23 Oct 1995 Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. Three days later, Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025
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23 Oct 1996 New York 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
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23 Oct 1997 "Triumph of Love, " opens at Royale Theater, New York City
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23 Oct 1997 At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out
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23 Oct 1997 Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts
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23 Oct 1998 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
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23 Oct 1998 Swatch Internet Time, a measure of 1000 "beats" per day was inaugurated by the Swatch Group.
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23 Oct 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
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23 Oct 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.
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23 Oct 2007 A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
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23 Oct 2011 A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
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23 Oct 2011 The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
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23 Oct 2012 After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.
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