Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 23

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• Paulina Wright Davis
  Paulina Wright Davis
• First-generation iPod
  First-generation iPod
• The explosion of the Marine Corps building in Beirut, Lebanon
  The explosion of the Marine Corps building in Beirut, Lebanon
• Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
  Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
• Claude François de Malet
  Claude François de Malet
• Santos-Dumont Template:Nowrap
  Santos-Dumont Template:Nowrap
• Jeannette Piccard
  Jeannette Piccard

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Blurb	Reason
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 Template:Nowrap 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
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby |d|1869|	Too much uncited, deathday not cited
Johnny Carson |b|1925|	Too much uncited
Stella Obasanjo |d|2005	Too much uncited

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• 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.
• 1957 – A screening of Mother India, one of the most influential Indian films in history, was held for President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru two days before its release.
• 1995 – The runway show for Alexander McQueen's collection The Hunger was staged at London's Natural History Museum.
• 2018 – An escalator accident in Rome left 24 people injured, mostly fans of the CSKA Moscow football team who were in town for a UEFA Champions League match against Roma.

• 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.
• 1955 – The State of Vietnam voted in a referendum to become a republic.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ended after five months.
• 2001 – Grand Theft Auto III was released, helping to popularize open-world and mature-content video games.
• 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.
• 2022 – Myanmar civil war: Burmese military forces launched airstrikes that killed at least 80 concertgoers in Kachin State.

• Born/died: | Sweyn III of Denmark |d|1157| Karl Schädler |b|1804| Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg |b|1832| Emma Vyssotsky |b|1894| Johnny Kitagawa |b|1931| Annabel Breuer |b|1992| Margaret Qualley |b|1994| Josh Kirby |d|2001|

John Heisman |b|1869| Douglas Jardine |b|1900| Toshio Hosokawa |b|1955| Soong Mei-ling |d|2003| Template:Divhide

October 23: Mole Day Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ended the Danish Civil War.
• 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his biplane [[Santos-Dumont 14-bis|Template:Nowrap]] for 50 metres (160 ft) at an altitude of about four metres (13 ft).
• 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.
• 2011 – During the Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix, Marco Simoncelli (pictured) collided with two other riders, resulting in his death due to serious trauma to the head, neck, and chest.