Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 23

This is a list of selected October 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
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  First-generation iPod
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  The explosion of the Marine Corps building in Beirut, Lebanon
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  Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
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  Claude François de Malet
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  Santos-Dumont 14-bis

Ineligible

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 Phillips 66 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

Eligible

• 1798 – The forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeat the French and capture the town of Preveza in the Battle of Nicopolis.
• 1850 – The inaugural National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by American activist Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, began in Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his biplane 14-bis (depicted) for 50 metres (160 ft) at a height of about four metres (13 ft).
• 1956 – The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration that attracted thousands while marching through central Budapest to the parliament building.
• 2001 – The controversial video game Grand Theft Auto III was first released to critical acclaim, and went on to popularise open-world and mature-content games.
• 2022 – Burmese military forces launched airstrikes that killed at least 80 concertgoers during the Hpakant massacre in Kachin State, Myanmar.
• Born/died: | Sweyn III of Denmark |d|1157| Stefano Franscini |b|1796| Ludwig Leichhardt |b|1813|Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg |b|1832| Emma Vyssotsky |b|1894| Fred Shero |b|1925| Annabel Breuer |b|1992|Josh Kirby |d|2001| Stella Obasanjo |d|2005

October 23: Double Ninth Festival in China (2023); Mole Day

Jeannette Piccard

• 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.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese troops began an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from American forces.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ended after five months.
• 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.

• John Heisman (b. 1869)
• Douglas Jardine (b. 1900)
• Soong Mei-ling (d. 2003)

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