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Today in History ~ October 23
Events0787 - Byzantine Empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea
1520 - King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V
1588 - Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returns to Santander
1642 - Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
1668 - Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1679 - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1690 - Revolt in Haarlem, Holland after public ban on smoking ("Thank you for not smoking")
1707 - The British Parliament met for the first time.
1760 - 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US
1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1812 - Failed coup against emperor Napoleon
1814 - 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced
1855 - Rival Governments in Kansas
1864 - Union forces led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeated Confederate Gen. Stirling Price's army in Missouri.
1890 - Borodin's Opera "Prince Igor" is produced posthumously in St Petersburg
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a solo, public airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Ind.
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
1917 - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky
1919 - Sigmund Romberg'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 "Katya Kabanov ," premieres in Brno
1932 - "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1934 - Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341m (rec)
1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 - The British Eighth Army launched an offensive at El Alamein in Egypt, a World War II battle that eventually swept the Germans out of North Africa.
1943 - 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches Birkenau extermination camp
1943 - Burma railway opens
1944 - Gulf of Leyte battle begin
1944 - Soviet army invades Hungary
1945 - Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player hired by a major league team, was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and sent to their farm team the Montreal Royals .
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow.
1953 - France grants Laos' sovereignty
1954 - Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1954 - German FR joins NATO
1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 - An anti-Stalinist revolt that was subsequently crushed by Soviet troops began in Hungary.
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
1959 - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
1962 - Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis
1963 - Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in NYC
1972 - "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances
1972 - Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
1972 - Earthquakes killed more than 10,000 people in Nicaragua.
1973 - President Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
1975 - Battle between Cuban & South Africa troops in Angola
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 - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC
1979 - Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation when he sucker punches Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches.
1980 - The resignation of Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin was announced.
1983 - 241 U.S. Marines and sailors in Lebanon were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers. [H]
1987 - The U.S. Senate rejected, 58-to-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.
1988 - Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate
1989 - Hungary formally declared an end to 40 years of communist rule and proclaimed itself a republic, setting the stage for creation of Western-style democracy in the East Bloc state.
1990 - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages and released 64 British hostages.
1991 - Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1991 - Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine assists the suicide of 2 women
1991 - Cambodia's warring factions and representatives of 18 other nations signed a peace treaty in Paris.
1991 - The United States announced that all parties invited to the Middle East peace conference had accepted.
1993 - 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast
1993 - The Toronto Blue Jays won baseball's World Series for the second year in a row.
1995 - Yeltsin, Clinton Agree on joint peacekeeping in Bosnia (formerly Yugoslavia)
1995 - The Defense Department announced it was ending a program designed to help minority-owned firms secure government contracts.
1996 - Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole tried to persuade Ross Perot to quit the race and endorse the GOP ticket, but Perot refused.
1996 - The civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, Calif. (Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.)
1996 - Bob Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, met with Ross Perot and asked him to drop out of the presidential race and endorse Dole. The next day, Perot said no.
1998 - After nine days of tense negotiations at the Wye Conference Center in Queenstown, Md., Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed an agreement to revive the stalled Middle East peace process.
1998 - Dr. Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician who performed abortions, was shot to death by a sniper who fired a bullet through a widow of Slepian's home in Amherst, N.Y. He had been the target of anti-abortion protesters for years.
2000 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held groundbreaking talks in North Korea with communist leader Kim Jong Il and attended a huge spectacle of 100,000 performers honoring her host.
2001 - U.S.-led forces maintained their intense pressure on the Taliban, pounding positions around the Afghan capitol of Kabul and the militia's southern stronghold of Kandahar for the 17th consecutive day. Vice President Dick Cheney was given the International Republican Institute's 2001 Freedom Award. He promised the war against terrorism being waged in Afghanistan would be "relentless."
2002 - A group of 20 Chechen gunmen stormed a Moscow theater, taking hostage more than 700 members of the audience, actors, and theater staff, and demanding an end to the war in the separatist republic.
2002 - Authorities say the sniper who has terrorized the Washington region for the past three weeks -- killing 10 people and wounding three others -- has demanded $10 million in cash and threatened to begin attacking children of the area if demands are not met.
Birthdays Today
1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Place de la Concorde)
1752 - Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
1767 - H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer
1801 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer
1835 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson (23rd Vice President of the U.S. [1893-1897]; grandfather of U.S. presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson [1952, 1956])
1906 - Gertrude Ederle (Olympic swimming medalist [1924]: gold: 4x100-meter relay team; bronze: 100-meter freestyle; 1st woman to swim English Channel [14 hrs., 31 minutes - set a world record]; swimming instructor of deaf children; International Women's Sports Hall of Famer)
1914 - 'Bruiser' (Frank) Kinard (College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: University of Mississippi; NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers; AAFC's NY Yankees; All-Pro: [1940, 1941, 1943, 1944]; 'ironman of football': played 708 out of 720 season minutes [1936]; missed only one game in nine years of pro ball)
1918 - James Daly (Emmy Award-winning actor: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Eagle in a Cage [1965-66]; Medical Center, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders; father of actress, Tyne Daly)
1923 - Ewell Blackwell (baseball)
1923 - Ned Rorem (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Air Music [1976])
1925 - Johnny Carson, Corning Iowa, (Emmy Award-winning comedian, TV host: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1977-78, 1978-79], 1979-80, 1991-92]; The Johnny Carson Show, Who Do You Trust?, Earn Your Vacation)
1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer/conductor (Never on Sunday)
1927 - Sonny (William) Criss (musician: saxophone: LP: The Bop Masters, Saturday Morning, Criss Craft, Out of Nowhere, Warm and Sonny)
1931 - Diana Dors (Fluck) (actress: Children of the Full Moon, Oliver Twist, Unicorn, Theatre of Blood, The Devil's Web, Baby Love)
1931 - Jim Bunning (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher: pitched a perfect game [6-21-64]; Pittsburgh Pirates, LA Dodgers; U.S. Senator from Kentucky)
1935 - Juan 'Chi-Chi' Rodriguez (World Golf Hall of Famer: record for most consecutive wins on Senior PGA Tour [3]; established pro-am tournament: proceeds for Children's Hospital in Puerto Rico; founded: Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation)
1939 - Charlie Foxx (singer: Mockingbird [w/sister, Inez])
1940 - Eleanor (Ellie) Greenwich (Ellie Gay, Ellie Gee) (songwriter [w/Jeff Barry]: My Baby, Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, River Deep, Mountain High; singer: group: Raindrops: What a Guy, The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget; solo: LP: Let It be Written, Let It be Sung; on Broadway: Leader of the Pack)
1940 - Pel» (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) (Brazil's soccer star; record for most wins: 3 winning teams [1958, 1962, 1970]; most career goals in international competition [97, 1957-70]; most career hat-tricks [92, 1956-77] in film: Escape to Victory)
1942 - Michael (John) Crichton (writer: Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man, Disclosure, The Great Impostor, The Secret of Canta Victoria, Congo; director: Runaway, Coma, Westworld, The Great Train Robbery)
1947 - Greg Ridley (musician: bass: group: Spooky Tooth: LP: It's All About and Spooky Two, Ceremony; VIP: LP: Supernatural Fairytales)
1950 - Ed Smith (football)
1952 - Andrew Jones (football)
1954 - Dwight Yoakam (songwriter, singer: I'll be Gone, Bury Me, Miner's Prayer, South of Cincinnati; LP: Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., A Town South of Bakersfield)
1959 - 'Weird' Al Yankovic (singer, comedian: parodies: Eat It, My Bologna, Another One Rides the Bus, I Love Rocky Road, King of Suede, I Lost on Jeopardy, Polkas on 45, The Brady Bunch, Like a Surgeon)
1962 - Doug Flutie (football: Boston College quarterback: Heisman Trophy winner [1984]; Canadian Football League: individual record: British Columbia Lions: passing yards gained in a season [6,619 in 1991])
1962 - Mike Tomczak (football: Pittsburgh Steelers; Chicago Bears quarterback: Super Bowl XX)
Famous deaths
42BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi [H]
1260 - Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1450 - Juan de Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
1801 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
1872 - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
1901 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
1928 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies
1935 - Abe Landau, US gangster, murdered
1935 - Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
1935 - Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
1939 - Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1950 - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1984 - Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
1994 - Robert Lansing, actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
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