Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 23:
1752 Nicolas Appert inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
1844 Louis Riel Manitoba, leader of insurrection of M‚tis
1844 Robert Bridges poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty)
1868 Rama V [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
19-- Albert Stratton Hubbard Ohio, actor (Paul-Perry Mason, Martin-Sara)
19-- Augusta Dabney Beverly Calif, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents)
19-- Warren Burton actor (Guiding Light)
19-- Wolf Muser actor (Capitol)
1905 Felix Bloch US physicist (Nobel 1952)
1906 Gertrude Ederle US, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1910 Hayden Rorke Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
1912 Ilse D”rffeldt Germany, sprint relay (Olympic-1936)
1914 Frank (Bruiser) Kinard NFL, AAFC tackle (Brooklyn, NY Yankees)
1917 Robert Bray Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)
1918 James Daly Wisc, actor (Medical Center)
1922 Coleen Gray Staplehurst Nebraska, actress (Apache Drums)
1923 Frank Sutton Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
1923 Ned Rorem Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
1925 Johnny Carson Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
1927 Dezs” Gyarmati Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
1931 Diana Dors England, actress (Berserk!, Steaming)
1931 Jim Bunning Phillies pitcher (perfect Game against Mets 1965)
1932 Dimitra Arliss actress (Rich Man Poor Man II)
1935 Chi Chi Rodriguez golfer (PGA Seniors-1987)
1938 John Heinz (Sen-R-Pa)
1938 Jordan Christopher Youngstown Ohio, actor (Secrets of Midland Heights)
1940 Edison Pel‚ Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire (NY Cosmos)
1940 Jordan Christopher Youngston Oh, actor (Return of the 7)
1941 Greg Ridley bassist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1942 Michael Crichton US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)
1946 Miklos Nemeth Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 Michael Rupert Denver Colo, actor (Pasadena Playhouse)
1956 Darrell Place US, archer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Dwight Yoakum country singer (If There Was a Way)
1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1962 Doug Flute WFL/NFL QB (Generals, Bears, Patriots)
1963 Katherine Hushaw Anaheim Ca, playmate (Oct, 1986)
1969 Brooke Theiss Calif, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good & Evil)
1974 Kaleena Kiff Santa Monica Calif, actress (Patti-Love Sidney)
Deaths which occurred on October 23:
1903 Francis Ellingwood Abbot theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1915 W.G. Grace British cricketer, dies
1978 Maybelle Carter country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1983 Jessica Savitch Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1983 Tamara Shayne actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1984 David Gorcey dead end kid actor, dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 Oskar Werner actor, dies of a heart attack at 61
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1871 Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1884 1st world series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
1888 Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
1890 The opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1910 Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1921 Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
1927 City of Netanya, Israel founded
1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1945 Jackie Robinson signs Montr‚al Royal contract
1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 Hungarian Revolution began
1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1967 NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1973 Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president
1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve the new Canal treaties
1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
1983 Truck bomb in Beirut kills 241 US soldiers
1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1984 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1988 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Thailand : Chulalongkorn Day (1868)
US : United States Day
US : Mother-in-Law's Day
- - - - - ( Sunday ) US some states : Veterans Day
- - - - - ( Monday ) US : Francis E Willard Day-temperance day
- - - - - ( Friday ) Afgh nist n : Id-Qurban Day
Religious Observances
Ang, Orth, Luth : Comm of St James of Jerusalem, Brother of Jesus
RC : Mem, St John of Capistrano, patron of military chaplains (opt)
Religious History
4004 (BC) According to the sacred timeline worked out by Archbishop James Ussher, 73, "the heavens and the earth" were created on this date at 9:00 a.m. (GMT). Ussher's "Chronologies of he Old and New Testaments" was first published 1650-54.
1239 In England, the main cathedral at Wells (begun c.1186) was consecrated. The most striking interior feature of the cathedral are the inverted arches (14th century) by which the piers of the tower are strengthened.
1385 In Germany, the University of Heidelberg was founded under Pope Urban VI as a college of the Cistercian order. (Among its faculties today are theology, law, medicine and philosophy.)
1857 Delegates from eight states met in Nashville and organized the Southern Baptist Sunday School Union. The organization proved short-lived, when it was nullified by the onset of the American Civil War.
1871 Birth of Edgar J. Goodspeed, American Greek N.T. scholar. He taught at the University of Chicago 1898-1937. In 1931, he co-authored with JMP Smith "The Bible: An American Translation," better known today as "Smith and Goodspeed."
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
Thought for the day :
" All who would win joy must share it, happiness was born a twin. "
