Today in History for 23rd October 2016:
Historical Events
1520 – King Carlos I crowned German emperor Charles V
1962 – USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
1973 – Yankee GM and pres Lee MacPhail named AL president
1975 – Islander Glenn Resch’s 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1989 – Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended
2015 – Adele releases her single “Hello” – becomes 1st song with more than a million downloads in 1st week (1.1m)
Famous Birthdays
1844 – Louis Riel, Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies, born in Red River Colony, Rupert’s Land, British North America (d. 1885)
1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1969 – Brooke Theiss, California, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good and Evil)
1973 – Shawn Wooden, free safety (Miami Dolphins)
1987 – Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
Famous Deaths
1890 – Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
1903 – Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1948 – Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71
1950 – Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
1994 – William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, inventor of the Lisp programming language.(b. 1927)