October 23

23Oct2009 In : On this day
Author : FJ

Selected anniversaries

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October 23: National Day in Hungary (1956); Chulalongkorn Memorial Day in Thailand

425 – Valentinian III became Emperor of the Western Roman Empire at the age of six.
1642 – The Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, was fought to an inconclusive result near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire.
1739 – Great Britain declared war on Spain, starting the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
1955 – Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) defeated Emperor Bao Dai in a fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu on the future of the monarchy in South Vietnam.
1956 – The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration which attracted thousands as it marched through central Budapest to the Parliament building.
1983 – Lebanese Civil War: Suicide bombers destroyed two barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers of the international peacekeeping force.

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