October 23

See also: Category: Holidays October 23

National

• Hungary - Republic Day .
• Libya - Day of Victory and Liberation ^{[2] [ specify ]} .

Professional

• Praying Day .
• Russia - Day of Advertising Workers in Russia ^[3] .

Religious

In the catholic church ^[4]

• memory of Servand and Herman, martyrs ( 305 );
• memory of John, bishop and James of the elder, martyrs of Persia ( 344 year );
• memory of Theodorite of Cyrus ( 457 year );
• memory of the Monk Severin, monk ( 482 year );
• memory of Severin Boethius ( 524 );
• memory of John, bishop of Syracuse ( 609 year );
• memory of Roman Rouen ( 640 year );
• memory of Benedict (Benedikt) presbyter (circa IX century );
• memory of Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople ( 877 );
• memory Ethelfledy, Mother Superior ( X century );
• memory of John Bon ( 1249 );
• memory of John Kapistran ( 1456 );
• memory of John Porro presbyter, monk ( 1506 );
• commemorating Thomas Tween, martyr ( 1680 );
• memory of Alluchio ( 1134 );
• memory of Mary, the nun martyr, and her five companions ( 1794 );
• memory of Paul Tong, martyr ( 1833 );
• memory of Arnold, monk ( 1890 );
• memory of Ambrose, Florence and Honorat, monks martyrs ( 1936 );
• memory of the holy martyrs Hildefons and Justinian, presbyters, Euphrasius, Honorius, Thomas, and Joseph, monks martyrs ( 1936 );
• memory of Leonard, elder, martyr ( 1936 ).

  In the Orthodox Church ^{[5] [6]}

• Cathedral of Volyn Saints ;
• memory of the holy fathers of the VII Ecumenical Council (787);
• memory of the martyr Theotekne of Antioch ( III - IV centuries );
• memory of the martyrs Eulampius and Eulampie ( 303 - 311 years );
• memory of St. Vassian (Basil) of Constantinople, hegumen ( V century );
• memory of St. Theophilus of Tiberiopolis, confessor ( VIII century );
• memory of St. Amphilochius of the Caves, Bishop of Vladimir-Volyn ( 1122 );
• memory of blessed Andrew, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Totemsky ( 1673 );
• memory of St. Innocent (Smirnov) , Bishop of Penza ( 1819 );
• memory of St. Ambrose of Optina ( 1891 ).

In the protestant church

• memory of Jacob, brother of the Lord, martyr ( I century ) (in ELCA and in the LCMS );
• memory of John Zwick, priest, church composer ( 1542 ) (in the ECG ).

Name Day

• Catholic : John , Severin , Fedor .
• Orthodox : ( Ambrose ), Andrey , Anton , Vasily , Yevlampy , Yevlampy . ^[7]

See also: Category: October 23 events

Until the 19th century

• 787 - The Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church established the order of veneration of icons , preserved to this day.
• 1086 - Battle of Zallak .
• 1545 - Zaporizhzhya Cossacks , going to sea on 32 shuttle gulls , approached the Turkish fortress Achi-Kale ( Ochakov ) and captured it.
• 1748 - the construction of the first chemical laboratory in the Russian Empire , founded by MV Lomonosov, was completed .
• 1769 - a three - wheeled steam wagon - the ancestor of the car - for the first time develops a speed of 4.5 km / h.

XIX century

• 1803 - John Dalton calculates atomic masses for the 21st element and compound.
• 1814 - surgeon Joseph Carpue officially conducted the first plastic surgery in modern history to restore the shape of the nose in London .
• 1826 - For the first time in the USA, gas lighting was used at the New York Theater.
• 1850 - a powerful explosion occurred on the raid of the port of Constantinople aboard the flagship Turkish ship of the line Neiri Shevkat. More than five hundred people were killed, including Vice Admiral Mahmoud Pasha and his retinue. Another 200 people were injured.
• 1859 - the first Sunday school was opened in Kiev .
• 1873 - German accession to the Russian - Austrian convention. The Union of Three Emperors was created .
• 1877 - during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 There was a battle at Virgo Boynu between the troops of the Russian imperial army and the army of the Ottoman Empire ^[8] .

XX century

• 1907 - in Berlin on Unter den Linden inaugurated the fashionable Adlon Hotel .
• 1914
  • The Shchukin Theater School was opened in Moscow.
  • In Moscow, I. A. Rubinsky built a simulator for training in piloting an airplane .
• 1923 - the beginning of the Hamburg uprising .
• 1925 - the first Correctional Labor Code of the Ukrainian SSR was adopted.
• 1927 - Netanya is founded on the territory of the British Mandated Territory of Palestine by Jews - immigrants from Eastern Europe.
• 1937 - The 812-day Arctic drift of the Soviet icebreaker " Georgy Sedov " began.
• 1942
  • World War II : the battle of the British and Germans at El Alamein in Egypt began .
  • The battle of Americans and Japanese at Cape Lung
• 1944 - The Second Battle of the Philippine Sea began .
• 1946 - the first meeting of the UN General Assembly began .
• 1947
  • For the first time, spouses became Nobel Prize winners . Immigrants from Austria, American biochemists Gerty and Karl Corey "for the discovery of the catalytic conversion of glycogen " was awarded the prize in physiology and medicine.
  • In an atmosphere of witch-hunting in Hollywood , actor guild president Ronald Reagan told the Anti-American Activities Commission that fear of communism should not jeopardize democratic principles.
• 1951 - The last Aeronca 15 Sedan was sold. Aeronca ceased production of aircraft, reorienting to other activities.
• 1952 - in New York , the premiere of a new film by Charles Spencer Chaplin (" Ramp Lights ") took place.
• 1955
  • South Vietnam is proclaimed a republic.
  • Saar became part of Germany .
• 1956 - An anti-Soviet uprising began in Hungary .
• 1958 - Boris Pasternak is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1974 - in Vienna, the 75th session of the IOC decided to hold the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow, the capital of the USSR.
• 1979 - Václav Havel and five other Czech dissidents are charged with subversive activities.
• 1983 - Suicide bombers attacked the headquarters of the American and French peacekeeping contingents in Lebanon , about 300 peacekeepers died.
• 1984 - Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU adopted a program for transferring Siberian rivers to the south .
• 1985 - Moscow Rock Laboratory began to function in Moscow .
• 1989 - The establishment of the Hungarian Republic is proclaimed in Budapest .
• 1991
  • The U.S. Department of State said the United States was ready to normalize relations with Vietnam.
• 1997 - the exchange rates of most countries in East Asia fell sharply.
• 1998 - Dr. Barnett Slepian, who had an abortion, was killed by a sniper in Buffalo ( USA ).
• 2000
  • Chinese archaeologists have discovered a museum of musical instruments, which was created 2 thousand years ago, during the Han Dynasty .
  • Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania discovered the oldest bacteria, which, according to their estimates, are about 250 million years old.
  • US President Bill Clinton signed a decree on the allocation of $ 58 billion to establish a national standard for drinking alcohol while driving. According to the document, now the driver’s blood can contain no more than 0.08% alcohol.

21st Century

• 2002
  • Terrorists seized about 800 hostages in the Theater Center on Dubrovka during the presentation of the musical “ Nord-Ost ”.
  • The State Duma adopted the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation .
• 2011 - in Libya, announced the victory over the regime of Muammar Gaddafi .

See also: Category: Born October 23

Until the 19th century

• 1715 - Peter II (d. 1730 ), Russian emperor (1727-1730).
• 1776 - Efim Lutsenko (d. 1855 ), Russian sentimentalist poet.
• 1789
  • Konstantin Arseniev (d. 1865 ), Russian historian, geographer and statistician.
  • Nikolai Turgenev (d. 1871 ), Russian economist, publicist, active participant in the Decembrist movement.

XIX century

• 1801 - Gustav Albert Lorzing (d. 1851 ), German composer, actor, singer, conductor.
• 1805 - Adalbert Stifter (d. 1868 ), Austrian writer and artist.
• 1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt (d. 1848 ), German explorer of Australia .
• 1817 - Pierre Laruss (d. 1875 ), French lexicographer and encyclopedist, compiler of the famous dictionary.
• 1818 - Prov Sadovsky, the elder (d. 1872 ), actor of the Maly Theater.
• 1834 - Yuri Nechaev-Maltsov (d. 1913 ), Russian manufacturer and philanthropist.
• 1844
  • Wilhelm Label (d. 1900 ), German realist painter.
  • Robert Bridges (d. 1930 ), English poet.
• 1846 - Alexander Arkhangelsky (d. 1924 ), Russian choral conductor and composer.
• 1852 - Jean-Louis Foren (d. 1931 ), French artist, graphic artist, book illustrator.
• 1857 - Georg Klebs (d. 1918 ), German botanist.
• 1868 - Frederick William Lanchester (d. 1946 ), English engineer, one of the creators of the first British car.
• 1871 - Gerg Fisht (d. 1940 ), Albanian poet and translator, Catholic priest.
• 1875 - Gilbert Lewis (d. 1946 ), American physicist-chemist.
• 1882 - Lydia Verkhovskaya (d. 1919 ), Russian artist.
• 1885 - Giuseppe Biazi (d. 1945 ), Italian artist and graphic artist.
• 1887 - Nikolai Glebov-Avilov (d. 1937 ), Russian revolutionary, member of the Constituent Assembly , Soviet statesman.
• 1894 - Mei Lanfang (d. 1961 ), Chinese actor, director, theater teacher and public figure.
• 1896
  • Roman Jacobson (d. 1982 ), Russian and American linguist, literary critic.
  • Semyon Volfkovich (d. 1980 ), inorganic chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• 1899 - Philip of October (d. 1969 ), admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union.

XX century

• 1904
  • Svyatoslav Roerich (d. 1993 ), Russian artist and thinker.
  • Vladimir Sudets (d. 1981 ), Air Marshal, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1905
  • Felix Bloch (d. 1983 ), Swiss-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1952, with E. Parsell ).
  • Alexander Melik-Pashaev (d. 1964 ), chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater (1953-1962), composer, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1907 - Evgeny Loginov (d. 1970 ), Soviet military and political figure, air marshal.
• 1908 - Ilya Frank (d. 1990 ), Soviet physicist, academician, Nobel laureate (1958).
• 1912 - Chaim Livshits (d. 1994), Belarusian Soviet painter, teacher.
• 1914 - Arvid Jansons (d. 1984 ), Latvian conductor, violinist, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1920 - Gianni Rodari (d. 1980 ), Italian children's writer.
• 1925 - Nanni Loy (d. 1995 ), Italian filmmaker.
• 1928 - Yuri Saulsky (d. 2003 ), composer, conductor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1929 - Tamaz Gamkrelidze , Soviet and Georgian linguist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences , president of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
• 1932 - Vasily Belov (d. 2012 ), Russian Soviet writer.
• 1935 - Sandor Kallosh , Soviet and Russian composer.
• 1936 - Philip Kaufman , American filmmaker.
• 1940
  • Pele , Brazilian soccer player, three-time world champion, “king of football”.
  • Gennady Pivnyak , academician of the NAS of Ukraine, professor.
  • Alexander Yanvaryov (d. 2005 ), Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
• 1941 - Igor Smirnov , the first president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (1991-2011).
• 1942 - Michael Crichton (d. 2008 ), American science fiction writer.
• 1945 - Vera Matveeva (d. 1976 ), Russian poetess, bard.
• 1951 - Vyacheslav Chanov , Soviet football player, goalkeeper, Russian coach.
• 1954 - Ang Lee , Taiwanese film director and producer, winner of several prestigious film awards.
• 1964 - Robert Trujillo , bass player of the American band Metallica .
• 1974 - Aravind Adiga , Indian journalist and writer, Booker Prize laureate (2008).
• 1976 - Ryan Reynolds , Canadian film and television actor.
• 1980 - Vasily Rochev , Russian skier, world champion (2005).
• 1986 - Emilia Clark , British actress.
• 1989 - Andrey Yarmolenko , Ukrainian football player.

See also: Category: Dead on October 23

• 1842 - Wilhelm Gesenius (b. 1786 ), German Orientalist, Hebraist , Bible student.
• 1856 - Alexander Ross (b. 1783 ), Canadian explorer, founder of several cities in British Columbia.
• 1872 - Theophile Gauthier (b. 1811 ), French writer and critic, one of the inspirers of Parnassus .
• 1906
  • Vladimir Stasov (b. 1824 ), Russian music and art critic, art historian.
  • Alexander Veselovsky (b. 1838 ), Russian philologist, historian of literature, academician.
• 1913 - Edwin Klebs (b. 1834 ), German bacteriologist and pathologist.
• 1921 - John Boyd Dunlop (b. 1840 ), British veterinarian, inventor of pneumatic tires, one of the founders of Dunlop Tires.
• 1935 - Charles Demuth (b. 1883 ), American artist.
• 1937
  • Archbishop Theodore (born 1876 ), an associate of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Tikhon , a holy martyr, was shot.
  • Nikolay Klyuyev (born 1884 ), a Russian poet, was shot.
• 1944 - Charles Glover Barkla (b. 1877 ), English physicist, Nobel laureate (1917).
• 1946 - Ernest Seton-Thompson (b. 1860 ), Canadian writer, author of works on animals.
• 1967 - Nikolai Gusev (b. 1882 ), Russian Soviet literary critic, personal secretary of L.N. Tolstoy .
• 1972 - Boris Livanov (b. 1904 ), Soviet film and theater actor and director, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1972 - Claire Windsor (b. 1892 ), American silent film actress.
• 1974 - Vladimir Ilyin (b. 1891 ), philosopher, theologian, literary and musical critic, composer.
• 1975 - Ragnwald Alfred Rocher Lund (b. 1899 ), Norwegian military, intelligence officer and diplomat.
• 1984 - Oscar Werner (b. 1922 ), Austrian film and theater actor, winner of the Oscar .
• 1986 - Eduard Adelbert Doisy (b. 1893 ), American biochemist, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1943).
• 1988 - Stefan Turchak (b. 1938 ), Ukrainian conductor, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1990 - Tamara Ceban (b. 1914 ), Moldavian singer (soprano), People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1997 - Bert Hanstra (b. 1916 ), Dutch director.
• 1998 - Valery Ginzburg (b. 1925 ), Soviet cameraman, people's artist of Russia.
• 2003 - Ivan Dmitriev (b. 1915 ), Soviet film and theater actor.

Eulampius Winter signpost , day of Eulampius and Eulampius. Lampey . Lampea .

• On Eulampia, the horns of the month are shown on the side where the winds should come from.
• If the horns of the month at midnight (to the north) - be a quick and severe winter, the snow will fall dry; if at noon (to the south) - do not wait for a fast winter, there will be mud and slush, until Kazan itself, autumn will not wash with snow, it will not dress up in a white caftan.
• Pre-winter (from October 23 to November 27). The last days of cumulus clouds . Early freeze-up on large rivers is possible. The beginning of the powder ^{[9] [10]} .