Today in History for 23rd October 2025

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Historical Events

1850 - First US National Women's Rights convention opens in Brinley Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts
1853 - Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens
1971 - Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down
1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
2007 - Rounder Records releases "Raising Sand", a collaborative album by American bluegrass singer Alison Krauss and British rock vocalist Robert Plant; tops the chart in Norway, peaks at #2 in US, UK, and Sweden

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Famous Birthdays

1794 - Joseph Panny, Austrian violinist and composer, born in Kollmitzberg, Austria (d. 1838)
1805 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist and historian known for his "Dictionary of Americanisms", born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1886)
1941 - Igor Smirnov, Transnistrian politician, President of breakaway region of Moldova, born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Soviet Union
1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish rock singer ("In the Middle of the Night"), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2018)
1991 - Mako of Akishino, Japanese former princess of the imperial family who gave up her title upon marriage, born in Toyko

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Famous Deaths

1928 - François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for X-ray scattering), dies at 67
1950 - Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson], American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee), dies at 64
1995 - Gavin Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh), dies at 79
2020 - W. C. Gorden, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Jackson State University, 1976-91, record 119–48–5), dies at 90

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