What are the important events that happened on October 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 23: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 23 is the 296^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 10, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,761,177,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneacontahexagon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 117 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,689 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 23 Historical Events

• 502 –
  The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
• 1642 –
  Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
• 1694 –
  British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
• 1707 –
  The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
• 1912 –
  First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
• 1917 –
  Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
• 1929 –
  The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
• 1983 –
  Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines 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.
• 2004 –
  A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
• 2011 –
  A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.

Who were born on October 23?

• 1503 –
  Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
• 1813 –
  Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
• 1876 –
  Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
• 1922 –
  Coleen Gray, American actress
• 1925 –
  Fred Shero, Canadian hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
• 1961 –
  Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
• 1971 –
  Carlo Forlivesi, Italian composer
• 1979 –
  Ramón Castro, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1987 –
  Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
• 1990 –
  Stevie Brock, American singer

Who died on October 23?

• 1944 –
  Hana Brady, Holocaust victim (b. 1931)
• 1984 –
  James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892)
• 1984 –
  Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
• 1986 –
  Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
• 1988 –
  Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
• 2001 –
  Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
• 2004 –
  Bill Nicholson, English Footballer (b.1919)
• 2004 –
  Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
• 2005 –
  John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
• 2010 –
  Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (b. 1942)