12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for October 23, 2025
Today’s History:
- 4004 BC – Archbishop James Ussher’s chronology places the Creation on this date.
- 1641 – Irish Rebellion of 1641 begins, sparking years of conflict in Ireland.
- 1864 – Battle of Westport in Missouri ends Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price’s raid.
- 1915 – 25,000+ women march on Fifth Avenue in New York City to demand the vote.
- 1942 – Second Battle of El Alamein begins; Allied offensive turns the tide in North Africa.
- 1956 – Hungarian Revolution erupts in Budapest against Soviet rule.
- 1983 – Suicide bombings devastate U.S. Marine and French barracks in Beirut, killing hundreds.
- 1989 – Hungary proclaims itself a republic, ending the People’s Republic.
- 1998 – Israel and the PLO sign the Wye River Memorandum to implement earlier peace accords.
- 2001 – Apple unveils the first iPod, reshaping portable music.
- 2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis begins as Chechen militants seize the Dubrovka Theater.
- 2015 – Hurricane Patricia becomes the strongest Western Hemisphere hurricane recorded (by sustained winds).
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1954 – Ang Lee, Academy Award–winning film director (“Brokeback Mountain,” “Life of Pi”) (71)
- 1959 – “Weird Al” Yankovic, Grammy-winning musical satirist (66)
- 1959 – Sam Raimi, filmmaker (“Spider-Man,” “Evil Dead”) (66)
- 1956 – Dwight Yoakam, country singer-songwriter and actor (69)
- 1976 – Ryan Reynolds, actor/producer (“Deadpool,” “The Adam Project”) (49)
- 1984 – Meghan McCain, author and television commentator (41)
- 1986 – Emilia Clarke, actor (“Game of Thrones”) (39)
Today’s Deaths:
- 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator and Caesar’s assassin (43)
- 1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tire (81)
- 1939 – Zane Grey, best-selling American Western novelist (67)
- 1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, British physicist, Nobel laureate (57)
- 1950 – Al Jolson, groundbreaking singer and entertainer (64)
- 2011 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian MotoGP rider (24)
- 2016 – Pete Burns, singer (Dead or Alive) (57)
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