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Interesting things that happened October 23rd:
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Birthdays on this date:
In 1752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet
In 1835 Adlai Stevenson (D), 23rd VP (1893-97)
In 1844 Louis Riel, leader of insurrection of Metis in Manitoba
+ Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty)
In 1905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
+ Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
In 1914 Frank "Bruiser" Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
In 1922 Coleen Gray (in Staplehurst, Nebraska)
In 1925 Johnny Carson, talk-show host (Tonight Show), magician
In 1931 Diana Dors (in England)
In 1938 John Heinz, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania
In 1940 Edson "Pele" Arantes de Nascimento, soccer player extraordinaire
In 1942 Michael Crichton, author (Andromeda Strain, Jurrasic Park)
In 1956 Darrell Pace, U.S. Olympic archer
In 1959 "Weird" Al Yankovic, song spoofster
In 1962 Doug Flutie, CFL football star
Events worth noting:
+ Feast of St. John of Capistrano (A.D. 1456)
+ Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
+ St. James of Jerusalem Day (Orthodox, Anglican)
+ Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano
+ Republic Day (Hungary)
In 1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England.
In 1790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed).
In 1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri.
+ Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Confedate Gen. Stirling Price.
In 1910 Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight.
In 1915 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote.
In 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released.
In 1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt.
In 1946 United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for first time
in Flushing Meadow.
In 1956 First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast.
+ The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts. It was later
crushed by Soviet forces.
In 1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, named Nobel Prize for Literature
winner.
In 1973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings.
In 1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0.
In 1977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties.
In 1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.
In 1983 241 US Marines and sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack on
their barracks in Beriut.
In 1989 33 years after Soviet tanks crushed the last revolt, Hungary
declares itself the Republic of Hungary.
In 1998 Buffalo, NY abortion provider Dr. Barnett A. Slepian is murdered in
his kitchen by a sniper.
And remember ...
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Family History Month
National Caramel Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Sarcastics Awareness Month
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