On This Day in History - October 23

On This Day in History – October 23

42 BC – Second Battle of Philippi ends with the defeat of Brutus’s forces; Brutus takes his own life after the Roman Republican civil war.

1642 – Battle of Edgehill becomes the first major engagement of the English Civil War between Royalist and Parliamentarian forces.

1850 – First National Women’s Rights Convention opens in Worcester, Massachusetts, drawing more than 1,000 delegates from 11 states.

1864 – Battle of Westport, the last major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi, ends in a Union victory under Gen. Samuel Curtis.

1911 – Italian pilot flies the first aerial reconnaissance mission over Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War.

1915 – Roughly 25,000 women march down Fifth Avenue in New York City demanding the right to vote nationwide.

1935 – Gangster Dutch Schultz and three associates are fatally shot in a Newark saloon in what becomes known as the Chophouse Massacre

.1941 – Walt Disney’s animated film Dumbo is released in theaters.

1942 – British Eighth Army launches its major offensive at El Alamein in Egypt, a turning point in the North African campaign of World War II.

1962 – President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation authorizing a naval blockade of Cuba after the discovery of Soviet missiles.

1983 – Suicide truck bombings strike U.S. and French barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American Marines and 58 French soldiers.

1987 – U.S. Senate rejects President Reagan’s nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58–42 vote

.2001 – Apple announces the original iPod, the portable digital music player that transforms how people listen to audio

.2015 – Adele releases the single “Hello,” which becomes the first song to sell more than one million digital copies in a single week in the United States.

Born on October 23

1925 – Johnny Carson, longtime host of The Tonight Show

1940 – Pelé, Brazilian soccer legend

1976 – Ryan Reynolds, actor