Page 2: Historical Events In October - 23
Saturday, 04 January 2025
1773 On October - 23 pietro Generali, composer
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army on this day in history.
1782 Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73 on October - 23.
1788 On this day in history sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston)
1790 On this day in history slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1794 Joseph Panny, composer on October - 23.
1797 John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51) on October - 23.
1799 On this day in history william Paca, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58
1801 Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer on October - 23.
1801 On October - 23 johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340 on October - 23.
1805 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer) on October - 23.
1806 Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.
1810 On this day in history [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)
1812 On October - 23 failed coup against emperor Napoleon
1813 On October - 23 the Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1814 1st plastic surgery is performed (England) on October - 23.
1819 On October - 23 isac Baker Woodbury, composer
1820 James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 on October - 23.
1824 1st steam locomotive is introduced on this day in history.
1824 On October - 23 thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1828 Turner Ashby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 on October - 23.
1835 Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97) on October - 23.
1844 On this day in history louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
1846 Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer on this day in history.
1851 Guillaume Couture, composer on this day in history.
1852 On this day in history jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer
1853 On October - 23 maastricht-Aken railway in Neth opens
1854 On October - 23 the Times give precise British positions in Krim
1864 On October - 23 battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 On October - 23 union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1867 On this day in history 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1868 On October - 23 rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
1869 On this day in history jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
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