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11 Things That Happened This Day In History - 23rd October

posted: 8 months ago

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Here is a note of 11 things that happened on this day in history.

1. 1915 - 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote

2. 1940 - Pelé is born

3. 1941 - Dumbo is released, the fourth film in the Disney animated features series

4. 1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for the first time

5. 1951 - The Conservative leader, Winston Churchill, winds up his election campaign by denying he is a warmonger

6. 1973 - President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica

7. 1974 - Moscow is awarded the 1980 Olympic Games

8. 1978 - China and Japan formally end four decades of hostility when they exchange treaty ratifications

9. 1978 - Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempts to commit suicide while awaiting trial for killing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen

10. 2001 - Apple release the first IPod capable of storing 1,000 songs

11. 2009 - The US formally requests the extradition of Roman Polanski after he pleads guilty to having unlawful sex with an under-age girl in 1978 and then skipped bail

Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory

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