Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 23
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This is a list of selected October 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day in Hungary (1956); | unreferenced section |
| Chulalongkorn Memorial Day in Thailand | refimprove; cleanup required |
| 42 BCE – Roman Republican civil wars: At the Second Battle of Philippi, Brutus's army was decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. | no footnotes |
| 425 – Valentinian III became emperor of the Western Roman Empire at the age of six. | unreferenced section |
| 1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England was signed in Paris. | Unref sections |
| 1642 – The Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, was fought to an inconclusive result near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire. | refimprove |
| 1739 – The War of Jenkins' Ear between Great Britain and Spain began, spurred on by the severing of Robert Jenkins's ear. | unreferenced section |
| 1812 – General Claude François de Malet began a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris. | lots of CN tags (6) |
| 1953 – Alto Broadcasting System in the Philippines made the first television broadcast in Southeast Asia on DZAQ-TV. | ref improve section |
| 1958 – In his comic series Johan and Peewit in the weekly magazine Spirou, Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of small sky blue characters known as the Smurfs. | refimprove section |
| 1982 – An attempt to arrest members of a "cult-like" church in Miracle Valley, Arizona, led to a shootout in which two church members were killed and seven police officers were injured. | refimprove section |
| 1983 – Lebanese Civil War: Suicide bombers destroyed two barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers of the international peacekeeping force, and 6 civilians. | primary sources |
| 1989 – A massive explosion and fire ripped through the Phillips 66 Houston Chemical Complex, killing 23 employees and injuring 314 others. | lead too short |
| 2001 – The iPod, the line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple, was launched. | unreferenced section |
| 2002 – Chechen separatists seized a crowded theater in Moscow, taking approximately 700 patrons and performers hostage, at least 130 of whom were later killed. | Lots of cn |
| Anne Oldfield |d|1730 | refimprove section |
| Fred Shero |b|1925| | birthday not cited |
| Stella Obasanjo |d|2005 | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 1641 – Irish Catholic gentry in Ulster tried to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, to force concessions to Catholics.
- 1934 – Jeannette Piccard (pictured) piloted a hot-air balloon flight that reached 57,579 feet (17,550 m), becoming the first woman to fly in the stratosphere.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese troops began an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from American forces.
- 1956 – The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration that attracted thousands while marching through central Budapest to the parliament building.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ended after five months.
- 1995 – The runway show for Alexander McQueen's collection The Hunger was staged at London's Natural History Museum.
- 2015 – Hurricane Patricia, the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Western Hemisphere, peaked with maximum sustained winds of 215 mph (345 km/h) south of Mexico.
- Born/died: | Stefano Franscini |b|1796| John Heisman |b|1869| Emma Vyssotsky |b|1894| Douglas Jardine |b|1900| Annabel Breuer |b|1992| Soong Mei-ling |d|2003
October 23: Shemini Atzeret begins at sunset (Judaism); Mole Day
- 1798 – War of the Second Coalition: The Ottoman–Albanian forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeated French troops and captured the town of Preveza at the Battle of Nicopolis.
- 1850 – The inaugural National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by American activist Paulina Wright Davis (pictured), began in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his biplane 14-bis for 50 metres (160 ft) at an altitude of about four metres (13 ft).
- 2001 – Grand Theft Auto III was released, helping to popularize open-world and mature-content video games.
- 2022 – Myanmar civil war: Burmese military forces launched airstrikes that killed at least 80 concertgoers in Kachin State.
- Sweyn III of Denmark (d. 1157)
- Ludwig Leichhardt (b. 1813)
- Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg (b. 1832)
- Josh Kirby (d. 2001)