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Events on October 23

• 1520 Charles V is crowned King of the Romans in Aachen Cathedral.
• 1792 The first Jacobin club on German soil is founded in the Electoral Palace in Mainz.
• 1902 Max Brod meets Franz Kafka in the "Reading and Speaking Hall of the German Students in Prague" while he is giving a lecture on Arthur Schopenhauer. A lifelong friendship begins.
• 1923 The Hamburg Uprising, with which the KPD intends to seize power in the Weimar Republic, is suppressed on the very same day.
• 1951 The first six volumes of the Suhrkamp Library are published. The book series was conceived by the publisher Peter Suhrkamp for an elite readership.
• 1956 The Hungarian Uprising grows out of a large student demonstration in Budapest.
• 1958 In the Belgian magazine Spirou, the cartoonist Peyo publishes a comic with the Smurfs in a supporting role for the first time.
• 1971 Daimler-Benz applies for a German patent for its development of the airbag as a crash-protection device for the occupants of a motor vehicle.
• 1989 With the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic and the entry into force of a new constitution, the Hungarian People's Republic comes to an end.
• 2001 The first iPod with a 5-GB hard drive is introduced.
• 2002 At the Moscow Dubrovka Theatre, Chechen terrorists take approximately 800 hostages during a performance of the musical Nord-Ost.
• 2011 ROSAT, the heaviest German satellite to date, is destroyed upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. It was in operation from 1990 to 1999.

Born on October 23

• 1892 Gummo Marx, American actor
• 1905 Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1916 Philip Rosenthal, German entrepreneur and politician
• 1920 Gianni Rodari, Italian writer
• 1940 Pelé, Brazilian footballer
• 1950 Lothar Doering, German handball player and coach
• 1991 Emil Forsberg, Swedish footballer
• 1992 Álvaro Morata, Spanish footballer
• 1994 Margaret Qualley, American actress
• 2001 David Schumacher, German racing driver

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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