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Birthday October 23, 1752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet |
Birthday October 23, 1835 Adlai Stevenson, (D), 23rd VP (1893-97), US amb to UN |
Birthday October 23, 1844 Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty) |
Birthday October 23, 1844 Louis Riel, leader of insurrection of Metis in Manitoba |
Birthday October 23, 1905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932 |
Birthday October 23, 1905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952) |
Birthday October 23, 1914 Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees) |
Birthday October 23, 1922 Coleen Gray, in Staplehurst Nebraska |
Birthday October 23, 1925 Johnny Carson is born |
Birthday October 23, 1925 Johnny Carson, Tonight Show host |
Birthday October 23, 1931 Diana Dors, in England |
Birthday October 23, 1938 John Heinz, (R-Pa-Sen) |
Birthday October 23, 1940 Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire |
Birthday October 23, 1942 Michael Crichton, (Andromeda Strain) |
Birthday October 23, 1942 Michael Crichton is born |
Birthday October 23, 1956 Darrell Pace, U.S. Olympic archer |
History October 23, 0000 Brutus commits suicide |
History October 23, 1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England. |
History October 23, 1777 British fleet suffers defeat at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania |
History October 23, 1790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed). |
History October 23, 1813 American fur traders turn over Astoria, Oregon, to the British |
History October 23, 1855 Rival governments in bleeding Kansas |
History October 23, 1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri |
History October 23, 1864 Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price |
History October 23, 1890 President Benjamin Harrison extends borders of Nebraska |
History October 23, 1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight |
History October 23, 1915 25 000 women marched in NYC demanding the right to vote |
History October 23, 1941 Soviets switch commanders in drive to halt Germans |
History October 23, 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released |
History October 23, 1942 During WW II Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein Egypt |
History October 23, 1946 UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow. |
History October 23, 1956 Hungarian protest turns violent |
History October 23, 1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast |
History October 23, 1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary |
History October 23, 1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
History October 23, 1965 1st Cavalry Division launches Operation Silver Bayonet |
History October 23, 1972 U.S. negotiators ask for further talks in Paris |
History October 23, 1973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings |
History October 23, 1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0 |
History October 23, 1976 Chicago has its first #1 hit with If You Leave Me Now |
History October 23, 1977 By 2/3 majority Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties |
History October 23, 1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns due to illness. |
History October 23, 1983 Beirut barracks blown up |
History October 23, 1983 241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut |
History October 23, 1983 U.S. Embassy in Beirut hit by massive car bomb |
History October 23, 1989 Gas leak kills 23 at plastics factory |
History October 23, 1993 Carter homers to win World Series |
History October 23, 1998 An abortion-performing doctor is murdered |