📜 This Day in History
Friday, October 23
1157The Battle of Grathe Heath ended the Danish Civil War.- 1850The inaugural National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by American activist Paulina Wright Davis, began in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 1955The State of Vietnam voted in a referendum to become a republic.
- 1972Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ended after five months.
- 2015Hurricane Patricia, the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Western Hemisphere, peaked with maximum sustained winds of 215 mph (345 km/h) south of Mexico.
- 2022Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif is shot and killed by local police in Kajiado, Kenya.
