SomeFacts | October 23

On this day - October 23

James Ussher's purported creation date of the world according to ...

Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively ...

425 — Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.

502 — The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves ...

1086 — Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids ...

1157 — The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the Danish Civil War.

1295 — The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland ...

1448 — Scotland wins a decisive victory over England at the Battle of ...

1641 — Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of ...

1642 — The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the ...

1666 — The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 ...

1707 — The First Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain convenes.

1798 — The forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeat the French and ...

1812 — General Claude François de Malet begins a conspiracy to ...

1850 — The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in ...

1856 — Second Opium War: Dissatisfied with imperial commissioner Ye ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is the last ...

1868 — Meiji Restoration: Having taken the shogunate's seat of ...

1882 — Assommoir bombing: Anarchists such as Fanny Madignier commit ...

1906 — Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first ...

1911 — The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in ...

1912 — First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian ...

1923 — German October: Due to a miscommunication with the party ...

1924 — Second Zhili–Fengtian War: Warlord Feng Yuxiang, with the ...

1927 — The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, ...

1940 — Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss ...

1941 — The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, ...

1942 — World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on ...

1942 — All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight ...

1942 — World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El ...

1944 — World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.

1945 — Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract ...

1955 — The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite ...

1955 — Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in ...

1956 — Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, ...

1958 — Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make ...

1958 — Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five ...

1959 — Aeroflot Flight 200 crashes while attempting to land at ...

1965 — Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in ...

1970 — Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered ...

1972 — Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign ...

1978 — Aeroflot Flight 6515 crashes off Syvash, killing all 26 people ...

1982 — A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a ...

1983 — Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut ...

1989 — An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, ...

1989 — Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the ...

1989 — The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist ...

1991 — Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the ...

1993 — The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in ...

1995 — Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the ...

1998 — Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River ...

2001 — Apple Computer releases the iPod.

2002 — Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the ...

2004 — A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata ...

2007 — Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-120, with Pamela ...

2007 — A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide ...

2011 — The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan ...

2011 — A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, ...

2015 — The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and ...

2017 — War against the Islamic State: Philippine defense secretary ...

2020 — Second Libyan Civil War: The Second Libyan Civil War comes to ...

2022 — Myanmar Air Force airstrikes a concert in Hpakant Township, ...

2022 — Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese ...