October 23: What happened on this day in history?
The date of October 23 has witnessed many important events in the past. So, what significant developments took place in Turkey and around the world on this day? What were the events that made history on October 23? Here are the details...
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1840 - The Ministry of Post and Telegraph was established.
1853 - The Crimean War began.
1911 - During the Italo-Turkish War, Italian Captain Carlo Piazza conducted the first military reconnaissance flight in history over Ottoman trenches in Benghazi. Piazza later also took the first military aerial photograph.
1912 - The Battle of Kumanovo between the Ottoman and Serbian armies began during the First Balkan War.
1915 - In New York, 25,000-30,000 women marched on 5th Avenue for voting rights.
1926 - In the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev were removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
1929 - The continuous decline in stock values on the New York Stock Exchange began to slowly cause panic (the first signs of the Great Depression of 1929).
1946 - The United Nations held its first general meeting in New York.
1965 - President Cemal Gürsel tasked Justice Party Chairman Süleyman Demirel with forming the government.
1972 - In Zonguldak, 20 workers died and 76 were injured in a firedamp explosion at two separate coal mines.
1973 - US President Richard M. Nixon agreed to hand over Oval Office tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal to the court.
1956 - An uprising against Soviet rule began in Hungary. In demonstrations that spread across the country, the insurgents demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
1959 - The 3rd Mediterranean Games held in Beirut concluded. The Turkish national freestyle wrestling team placed first in 8 weight classes and won 13 gold, 8 silver, and 1 bronze medal in the general classification.
1960 - General census: Turkey's population was 27,754,820.
1981 - The Consultative Assembly held its first meeting.
1983 - Suicide attacks were carried out with explosive-laden trucks against American and French Peacekeeping Force headquarters in Beirut. 241 American Marines and 58 French paratroopers died.
1993 - The Lydian Hoard was brought back to Turkey after 28 years.
2011 - A 7.2 magnitude earthquake occurred in Van.