Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 23
October 23: National Day in Hungary (1956); Mole Day
- 4004 BC - The universe was created, according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.
- 1911 - First use of aircraft in war: an Italian pilot flew from Libya to survey Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War.
- 1958 - Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters, The Smurfs.
- 1983 - Suicide bombers destroyed two barracks of the international peacekeeping force in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French Paratroopers.
- 2002 - Moscow theater siege: Chechen rebels seized a crowded theater in Moscow, taking approximately 700 theatergoers and performers hostage.
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