23 October
Notable Births
Ningning
b. 2002
Chinese singer (born 2002)
Yui Kobayashi
b. 1999
Japanese model and member of Keyakizaka46
Amandla Stenberg
b. 1998
American actress (born 1998)
Jordan Goodwin
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Nick Bosa
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Élie Okobo
b. 1997
French basketball player (born 1997)
Jaydn Su'A
b. 1997
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Minnie (singer)
b. 1997
Thai singer (born 1997)
Ireland Baldwin
b. 1995
American fashion model (born 1995)
Margaret Qualley
b. 1994
American actress (born 1994)
Josh Ruffels
b. 1993
English association football player
Álvaro Morata
b. 1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Emil Forsberg
b. 1991
Swedish footballer (born 1991)
Mako Komuro
b. 1991
Former Japanese princess (born 1991)
Jorge Taufua
b. 1991
Samoa & Tonga international rugby league footballer
Viktor Agardius
b. 1989
Swedish footballer (born 1989)
Zach Brown
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Jonita Gandhi
b. 1989
Canadian singer (born 1989)
Anisya Kirdyapkina
b. 1989
Russian racewalker
Andriy Yarmolenko
b. 1989
Ukrainian footballer
Notable Deaths
June Lockhart
d. 2025
American actress (1925–2025)
Geoff Capes
d. 2024
English shot putter and strongman (1949–2024)
Gary Indiana
d. 2024
American writer, playwright and poet (1950–2024)
Jack Jones (American singer)
d. 2024
American singer and actor (1938–2024)
Aira Samulin
d. 2023
Finnish dance teacher and businesswoman (1927–2023)
Bishan Singh Bedi
d. 2023
Indian cricketer (1946–2023)
Adriano Moreira
d. 2022
Portuguese politician (1922–2022)
Jerry Jeff Walker
d. 2020
American country singer (1942–2020)
Walter Lassally
d. 2017
British filmmaker (1926–2017)
Jack Chick
d. 2016
American cartoonist (1924–2016)
Wim van der Voort
d. 2016
Dutch speed skater
Pete Burns
d. 2016
English singer (1959–2016)
Leon Bibb (musician)
d. 2015
American folk singer (1922–2015)
Jim Roberts (ice hockey, born 1940)
d. 2015
Canadian ice hockey player
Ghulam Azam
d. 2014
Bangladeshi writer and politician (1922–2014)
John Bramlett
d. 2014
American football player (1941–2014)
Bernard Mayes
d. 2014
British broadcaster, academic and writer (1929–2014)
Tullio Regge
d. 2014
Italian theoretical physicist (1931–2014)
Alvin Stardust
d. 2014
English singer (1942–2014)
Anthony Caro
d. 2013
English sculptor (1924–2013)
On This Day in History
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2022
Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China.
Xi Jinping
2022
Myanmar Air Force airstrikes a concert in Hpakant Township, Kachin state killing at least 80 people, including senior Kachin Independence Organisation officials, in the Hpakant massacre.
Myanmar Air Force
2020
Second Libyan Civil War: The Second Libyan Civil War comes to an end as all parties to the 5+5 Joint Libyan Military Commission agree to a ceasefire.
Libyan civil war (2014–2020)
2017
War against the Islamic State: Philippine defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana declares the end of the Siege of Marawi.
War against the Islamic State
2015
The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
Atmospheric pressure
2011
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 Van earthquakes
2011
The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
National Transitional Council
2007
A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
Kab 101
2007
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-120, with Pamela Melroy becoming the second female space shuttle commander.
Space Shuttle Discovery
2004
A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2004 Chūetsu earthquake
2002
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
Second Chechen War
2001
Apple Computer releases the iPod.
Apple Inc.
1998
Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.
Israel
1995
Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena.
Yolanda Saldívar
1993
The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
The Troubles
1991
Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1991 Paris Peace Agreements
1989
The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
End of communism in Hungary
1989
Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
Wärtsilä Marine
1989
An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314.
Phillips disaster of 1989
1983
Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
Lebanese Civil War