This day in #History
October 23rd
1927 – Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan
Straus
1946 – UN General Assembly 2 nd session convenes (1 st NYC- Flushing Meadows )
1947 – NAACP petition on racism, “An Appeal to the World” presented to UN
1947 – Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1 st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
1953 – France grants Laos ‘ sovereignty
1953 – German FR applies to NATO
1954 – Britain , England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1954 – German FR joins NATO
1954 – Pakistan governor- general Ghoelan
Mohammed disbands parliament
56 – Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in
Hungary
1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation . (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4)
1958 – De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance “peace of the brave ”
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1973 – UN ‘s revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1977 – Panamanians vote 2 :1 to approve new Canal treaties
1977 – Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces
that 34- billion-year- old one -celled fossils, the
earliest life forms , had been discovered
1978 – China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of
dissension
1989 – Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended
1998 – Israeli – Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a “land for
peace ” agreement.
2001 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks .
2001 – Apple releases the iPod.
2009 – The United Nations ” Rotterdam Rules ”
convention regulating international maritime carriage of goods is ratified with its twentieth signature
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1940 – Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento] , Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Brazilian footballer (Player of the Century – 1281 goals in 1363 games)
1942 – Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist (Andromeda Strain , Congo, Looker), (d . 2008)
1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
FAMOUS DEATHS
1928 – F A Alphonse Aulard , French historian, dies
1929 – Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of
historiography), dies at 74
1957 – Christian Dior, French designer
(New Look ), dies at 52 of a heart attack
1986 – Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K
(Nobel 1943 ), dies at 92
2011 – John McCarthy , American computer scientist
and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence ,
inventor of the Lisp programming language .( b . 1927
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