Historical Events on October 23.

1. 1707, 23rd October: Meeting of the first Parliament of Great Britain.

2. 1850, 23rd October: The first national women’s rights convention began in the United States.

3. 1944, 23rd October: In World War II, the Soviet Red Army invaded Hungary.

4. 1947, 23rd October: Gerty Cori and her husband Carl Cori were the first couples to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was given this award for his theory of the carbohydrate cycle.

5. 1973, 23rd October: UN-imposed sanctions end the war between Israel and Syria.

6. 1997, 23rd October: Kiran Bedi awarded the German Joseph Beauze Prize for Social Work.

7. 2004, 23rd October: Earthquake in Japan rendered 85 thousand people homeless.

8. 2012, 23rd October: After 38 years, the world’s first Teletext service (BBC’s Ceefax) ceased broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 23.

1. 1778: Kittur Chennamma, the Queen of the Nayakas of the kingdom of Kittur, India.

2. 1879: Shankar Ramchandra (Ahitagni Rajwade), Indian Vedic proponents.

3. 1923: Aslam Farooqi, an Indo-Pakistani linguist, writer, and scholar.

4. 1925: Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 11th Vice President of India. 

5. 1937: Deven Verma, Indian actor, director, and producer.

6. 1940: Pele, Brazilian footballer.

7. 1957: Sunil Bharti Mittal, an Indian billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the founder and chairperson of Bharti Enterprises.

8. 1959: “Weird Al” Yankovic, an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, satirist, actor, music video director, and author 

9. 1973: Malaika Arora, an Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ, and television personality.

10. 1974: Arvind Adiga, Indian journalist, and writer.

11. 1979: Prabhas, Indian actor.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 23.

1. 1834: Fatḥ-ʻAli Šâh Qâjâr, the second Shah of Qajar Iran. 

2. 1869: Edward Smith-Stanley, British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

3. 1910: King Chulalongkorn Rama V of Thailand.

4. 1921: John Boyd Dunlop, a Scottish researcher who invented the technique of using a tube filled with air inside the wheel.

5. 1944: Charles Glover Barkla, a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

6. 1957: Christian Dyer, French fashion designer, founder of Christian Dior SE.

7. 2012: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian-Bengali poet, and novelist.

23-October-1797

John J Rochussen, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1845-51), was born.

23-October-1824

Rani Chainema fight with the Britishers at a 'killa' (fort) in Kitur.

23-October-1883

Mirza Mohammad Ismile, Diwan of Mysore and Prime Minister of Hydrabad and Jaipur, was born.

23-October-1883

Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat.

23-October-1898

Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat.

23-October-1919

Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India, takes over as Former Secretary from Tory leader Arthur Balfour in London.

23-October-1934

Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.

23-October-1943

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose inaugurated the Rani Jhansi Brigade in Azad Hind Army and announced war against the British Empire.

23-October-1959

Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.

23-October-1970

If India's "vasectomy fairs" had hawkers, they might cry, "Come one, come all & all one billion." India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour shifts.

23-October-1973

Sambamurthy Pichhu, famous musician of Madras, died.

23-October-1985

Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.

23-October-1990

Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government.

23-October-1992

The dissident ministers of Bangarappa government in Karnataka resign.

23-October-1992

UPSC decides to introduce a new essay paper for the civil services examination.

23-October-1996

Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.

23-October-1996

Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.

23-October-1997

I.K. Gujral, PM, leaves for Edinburgh to attend Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting.

23-October-1997

Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline upto 31st October for sandalwood smuggler Veerappan to surrender.

23-October-1999

A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst.

23-October-1999

The chargesheet in Bofors case is a legal triumph, said Mr. Advani. But Congress(I) calls it as a political vendetta.

23-October-1999

V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.