About October 23
October 23, 2025 is the 296th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 117 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 23
- 1694 –British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
- 1707 –The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
- 1739 –War of Jenkins’ Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
- 1850 –The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
- 1906 –Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
- 1915 –Woman’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
- 1917 –Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
- 1941 –Walt Disney’s animated film Dumbo is released.
- 1942 –All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger (“Thanks for the Memory”, “Love in Bloom”, “Blue Hawaii”).
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
- 1944 –World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
- 1956 –Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
- 1958 –The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
- 1972 –Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
- 1973 –A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
- 1993 –Shankill Road bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
- 2001 –Apple announces the iPod.
- 2011 –A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
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