History for October 23

Source: muskegonpundit.blogspot.com --- Sunday, October 22, 2017
History for October 23 - On-This-Day.com Johnny Carson 1925 - Television host, comedian, Jim Bunning 1931 - Baseball player, Pelé 1940 - Soccer player Michael Crichton 1942 - Author, director, physician ("Jurassic Park"), Sam Raimi 1959 - Director, actor, "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959 - Singer, musician 1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA. 1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression. 1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein, Egypt. 1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. 1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time. 1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungary and eventually suppress the uprising. 1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago". 1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China. ...

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