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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">October 23</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Day" title="Mole Day">Mole Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1798" title="1798">1798</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Second_Coalition" title="War of the Second Coalition">War of the Second Coalition</a>: The Ottoman–Albanian forces of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Pasha_of_Ioannina" title="Ali Pasha of Ioannina">Ali Pasha of Janina</a> defeated French troops and captured the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preveza" title="Preveza">Preveza</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nicopolis_(1798)" title="Battle of Nicopolis (1798)">Battle of Nicopolis</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a> – The inaugural <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_Rights_Convention" title="National Women's Rights Convention">National Women's Rights Convention</a></b>, presided over by American activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulina_Wright_Davis" title="Paulina Wright Davis">Paulina Wright Davis</a>, began in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester, Massachusetts">Worcester, Massachusetts</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906" title="1906">1906</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont" title="Alberto Santos-Dumont">Alberto Santos-Dumont</a></b> flew his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biplane" title="Biplane">biplane</a> <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_14-bis" title="Santos-Dumont 14-bis"><span class="nowrap">14-bis</span></a></b></i> for 50 metres (160 ft) at an altitude of about four metres (13 ft).</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001" title="2001">2001</a> – <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_III" title="Grand Theft Auto III">Grand Theft Auto III</a></b></i> was released, helping to popularize <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_world" title="Open world">open-world</a> and mature-content video games.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022" title="2022">2022</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%93present)" title="Myanmar civil war (2021–present)">Myanmar civil war</a>: Burmese military forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpakant_massacre" title="Hpakant massacre">launched airstrikes that killed</a></b> at least 80 concertgoers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachin_State" title="Kachin State">Kachin State</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_III_of_Denmark" title="Sweyn III of Denmark">Sweyn III of Denmark</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1157); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Leichhardt" title="Ludwig Leichhardt">Ludwig Leichhardt</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1813); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Gabriel_St%C3%A5hlberg" title="Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg">Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1832); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Kirby" title="Josh Kirby">Josh Kirby</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2001)</p>
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