Important Events From This day in History October 23

 

 

23 Oct, 1956 Hungary Protests Against Soviet Rule

1956 : Tens of thousands of people take to the streets in Budapest, Hungary demanding end of Soviet rule.

23 Oct, 2002 Fifty Chechen rebels storm a Moscow Theater

2002 : Fifty Chechen rebels storm a Moscow Theater taking 7,000 hostages. The rebels had explosives strapped to their bodies and were demanding the withdrawal of Soviet Forces from Chechnya. Three days later after the death of two of the hostages Russian Special Forces stormed the building and during the raid most of the terrorists and 120 hostages were killed during the raid.

23 Oct, 1915 U.S.A. Suffrage Movement

1915 : As part of the women's suffrage movement 25,000 women march up Fifth Avenue in New York City demanding the right to vote.

23 Oct, 1921 U.S.A. Prohibition Laws

1921 : The prohibition laws are being flouted across the country because of the large amounts of booze by the millions of gallons is coming into the country from areas like the Bahamas, the rum runners have new fast power boats which run rings round the US revenue cutters and until the government provides fast patrol boats that can catch the smugglers. Another area that will need to be changed are the wages paid to prohibition agents (currently a prohibition agent is paid $145.00 per month) and the rum runners are offering bribes of $100,000 for them to turn the other way. If the government is serious about enforcing prohibition laws some changes and finance will need to be made available.

23 Oct, 1941 U.S.A. "Dumbo"

1941 : Dumbo is released, the fourth film in the Disney animated features, Dumbo was based upon a children's book about an elephant with big ears, who is capable of flying by using them as wings.

23 Oct, 1942 World War II French Workers

1942 : Nazis are threatening French Skilled Workers with violence against their families if they do not come forward to work for Germany's War Industry.

23 Oct, 1948 France Martial Law

1948 : France is moving closer to Martial Law following the communist Union Leaders calling for a general strike on Monday. The state has called up 50,000 troops to try to maintain law and order in the strike torn coal fields as more violence erupts and 2 more miners were killed yesterday.

23 Oct, 1950 Yugoslavia Marshall Tito

1950 : Marshall Tito the Yugoslavia leader who is defying the Communist regime has asked the US and the UK for aid to help with the drought stricken country where many are facing starvation.

23 Oct, 1955 U.S.A. Earthquake

1955 : Police in towns and cities within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco bay reported damage including one death. The quake came in two waves with the first causing a rolling motion then severe jolting motions that caused windows to crack and buildings to shudder the worst of the quake was recorded at 5.5 on the Richter scale.

23 Oct, 1963 England "Doctor Who"

1963 : "Doctor Who" the British science fiction television program featuring "The Doctor" an alien time traveler who can travel through time and space in his time-ship / blue police box the TARDIS. The first program featured William Hartnell as "The Doctor." His enemy, the Daleks that become part of British Popular Culture ("EX-TER-MI-NATE!", "EX-TER-MI-NATE!") did not appear till December 1963. The Doctor has been played by a number of actors over the years.

Original TV Series Launched 1963

William Hartnell 1963 - 1966

Patrick Troughton 1966 - 1969

Jon Pertwee 1970 -- 1974

Tom Baker 1974 --- 1981

Peter Davison 1981 --- 1984

Colin Baker 1984 --- 1986

Sylvester McCoy 1987 --- 1989

Series Ended 1989

TV Series relaunched in 2005

David Tennant 2005 --- 2010

Matt Smith 2010 --- 2013

Peter Capaldi 2013 --- 2017

Jodie Whittaker (first female Doctor) 2017

23 Oct, 1973 U.S.A. Gas Price Increase

October 23rd, 1973 : The price of gas increased by 400% and there were long queues at Gas Stations during the 1973 Oil Crisis. The crisis was caused by the war in the Middle East and OPEC deciding to cut oil supplies as a way of forcing the rest of the world to stop support for Israel. Toyota who had specialized in making smaller fuel efficient cars holds it's first national news conference in Los Angeles, California extolling the remarkable fuel efficiency of Toyota cars, the average American Car gave 15 MPG whereas the Japanese cars were achieving 25 MPG Plus. This provided the major Japanese manufacturers the springboard needed to make significant inroads into both the American and European cars markets.