23 October: What Happened On This Day in History

Meeting of the first Parliament of Great Britain.

Rani Chainema fight with the Britishers at a 'killa' (fort) in Kitur.

The first national women’s rights convention began in the United States.

Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India, takes over as Former Secretary from Tory leader Arthur Balfour in London.

Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose inaugurated the Rani Jhansi Brigade in Azad Hind Army and announced war against the British Empire.

In World War II, the Soviet Red Army invaded Hungary.

Gerty Cori and her husband Carl Cori were the first couple to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was given this award for his theory of the carbohydrate cycle.

Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.

If India's "vasectomy fairs" had hawkers, they might cry, "Come one, come all & all one billion." India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour shifts.

UN-imposed sanctions end the war between Israel and Syria.

US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space.

Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government.

UPSC decides to introduce a new essay paper for the civil services examination.

Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.

Kiran Bedi awarded the German Joseph Beauze Prize for Social Work.

Apple releases the iPod.

A earthquake in Japan rendered 85 thousand people homeless.

After 38 years, the world’s first Teletext service (BBC’s Ceefax) ceased broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.

Google research lab claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy, performing calculations in 3 mins that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years.