Today In History - October 23

1679 The "Meal Tub Plot" against James II of England
1775 The Continental Congress approves a resolution barring blacks from the Army
1790 The slaves revolt in Haiti
1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland coast killing 340 people
1864 Battle of Westport begins
1876 The New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1910 Blanche Scott became the first woman to solo a public airplane flight
1915 The first national horseshoe throwing championship is held in Kellerton, Iowa
1915 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote
1921 The Green Bay Packers play first NFL game
1927 City of Netanya, Israel is founded
1932 The "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
1942 Britain launches a major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1944 The Soviet army invades Hungary
1945 Jackie Robinson signs a Montreal Royal contract
1946 The UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes
1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" is presented to the UN
1954 Britain, England, France and USSR agree to end the occupation of Germany
1956 The first video recording on magnetic tape is televised coast-to-coast
1956 The Hungarian Revolution began
1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
1957 The first test firing of a Vanguard satellite launch vehicle: the TV-3
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 The USSR lends money to UAR to build the Aswan High Dam
1970 Gary Gabelich sets a new auto speed record: 622.4 mph
1973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 The UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention is adopted
1977 Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties
1980 The Soviet Premier, Alexei Kosygin, resigns due to illness
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut, Lebanon
1984 NBC airs BBC footage of the Ethiopian famine
1988 The Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1990 Iraq announces the release of 330 French hostages
1991 Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine euthanizes 2 women

1752 Nicolas Appert
1844 Louis Riel
1844 Robert Bridges
1905 Felix Bloch
1906 Gertrude Ederle
1910 Hayden Rorke
1914 Frank (Bruiser) Kinard
1917 Robert Bray
1918 James Daly
1922 Coleen Gray
1923 Frank Sutton
1923 Ned Rorem
1925 Johnny Carson
1931 Diana Dors
1931 Jim Bunning
1932 Dimitra Arliss
1935 Chi Chi Rodriguez
1938 John Heinz
1938 Jordan Christopher
1940 Edison Pele
1940 Jordan Christopher
1941 Greg Ridley
1942 Michael Crichton
1946 Miklos Nemeth
1951 Michael Rupert
1956 Darrell Place S, archer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Dwight Yoakum
1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic
1962 Doug Flute
1963 Katherine Hushaw
1969 Brooke Theiss
1974 Kaleena Kiff