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(Message started by: Sean_C on Oct 23^rd, 2005, 8:03am)

Title: Things that happened on October 23
Post by Sean_C on Oct 23^rd, 2005, 8:03am

On October 23 in history ..

1679 - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England.
1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed).
1864 - Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price
1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1915 - 25 000 women marched in NYC demanding the right to vote
1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
1942 - During WW II Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein Egypt
1946 - UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
1956 - Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1973 - President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings
1975 - Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0
1977 - By 2/3 majority Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties
1980 - Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns due to illness.
1983 - 241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut

Famous birthdays on October 23 ..

1752 - Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning bouillon tablet
1835 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97) US amb to UN
1844 - Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty)
1844 - Louis Riel, leader of insurrection of M‚tis in Manitoba
1905 - Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
1905 - Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
1914 - Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL AAFC tackle (Bkln NY Yankees)
1922 - Coleen Gray, in Staplehurst Nebraska
1925 - Johnny Carson, Tonight Show host
1931 - Diana Dors, in England
1938 - John Heinz, (R-Pa-Sen)
1940 - Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire
1942 - Michael Crichton, (Andromeda Strain)
1956 - Darrell Pace, U.S. Olympic archer

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by AussieBrian on Oct 23^rd, 2005, 9:52am

Things that didn't happen on October 23 in history

1647 - Christmas Day
1722 - First use of Archimedes' screw to re-hang wet bath-towels.
1769 - King George eleventh sodomises gerbil in Nevada.
1882 - Texas claims record for world's tallest dwarf.
1883 - Texas claims record for world's smallest dwarf.
1884 - Texas claims record for world's most average-sized cuban midget.
1894 - California invents the parachute.
1895 - New Zealand invents the rip-cord.
1911 - Porn shop opens at www.jonny.ch.com.
1926 - UN recognises left-handed lesbian limbo dancers as new nation.
1933 - Svenn hailed as Europe's oldest man.
1945 - Mayor of Hiroshima say's "Hey, wot dat noise?"
1955 - Margeret Thatcher's "My Life as a Dominatrix" banned by the Papal court.
1956 - www.banned.lelimey.ch.com causes Wall St melt-down.
1965 - Bill Posters acquitted.
1983 - Senate committee requests more time and funds re Prosecution of Suicide Bombers Act.
1991 - Due to world power shortage, light at end of tunnel now for day use only.
1994 - Japanese declare whale hunting for research is cruel and unsustainable.
1997 - World Health Organisation endorses O2 for CHeads.
2000 - NASA admits some moon-landing pictures were actually real.
2003 - International courts reject "Global Warming" as fair name for tanning product.
2004 - www.globwarm.dj.ch.com successfully dismantles international court.
2005 - Innocent CHead arrested re certain leakages not associated with urinary tract.

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by LeLimey on Oct 23^rd, 2005, 10:20am

lelimey as a name wasn't invented until 1996, November to be precise
You got a time travel machine Bri?! :P

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by zanychef on Oct 23^rd, 2005, 11:54am

[smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by BobG on Oct 23^rd, 2005, 11:57am

Adlai Stevenson was born in 1835?

;)

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by Charlie on Oct 23^rd, 2005, 7:58pm

My best bet is that is was Adali Stevenson's father who ran for president with Alton B. Parker, at least once, is who is referred to.

Charlie

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by TxBasslady on Oct 24^th, 2005, 1:37am

October 23, 1966....a memorable day for me.

I gave birth to my first child, Michael.

http://www.shutterfly.com/jsp/proceserv.jsp?uid=8GZtmzhu1Y&rostate=67b0de21bfdeb03da481&co=-1&js=1130135544203&ps=1&rs=6

Mike's not famous...but he's a precious gift to this Mom.

Jean

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by Woobie on Oct 24^th, 2005, 6:33am

Lucky guy, this Mike. Born to such a cool Mom!

You're MY "sUb-mOm" tho............. ;;D

i"m lucky too. [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Things that happened on October 23
Post by TxBasslady on Oct 24^th, 2005, 8:59pm

on 10/24/05 at 06:33:12, Woobie wrote:

Lucky guy, this Mike. Born to such a cool Mom!

You're MY "sUb-mOm" tho............. ;;D

i"m lucky too. [smiley=laugh.gif]

...I love you too, Tina. :-*

You and Ramon have been such a blessing in my life.

See you both in about 3 months! [smiley=huh.gif]

Much love to my kiddos,

Jean