October 23: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1707 - The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
2. 1812 - Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
3. 1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
4. 1861 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
5. 1911 - First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
6. 1915 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
7. 1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
8. 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.
9. 1973 - The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
10. 2001 - Apple announces the iPod.
11. Famous Birthdays: John Heisman (American football player and coach), William D. Coolidge (American physicist and inventor), Johnny Carson (American television host), Grant Imahara (American TV Mythbuster), Pelé (Brazilian footballer)

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