October 23: Facts & Historical Events On This Day

2018 The biographic drama movie “Bohemian Rhapsody,” about Freddie Mercury, premiered at Wembley Arena in London, UK.

2018 A 2,400-year-old shipwreck found in the Black Sea became the world’s oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered.

The 75-foot vessel is considered ancient Greek and was discovered with its mast, rudders, and rowing benches all intact.

2018 The world’s longest over sea bridge opened in China.

The 34.2-mile bridge links the cities of Hong Kong and Macau to mainland China. The bridge reduced what was a four-hour journey, to just 45 minutes.

2015 English singer-songwriter Adele achieved the record of the first song to get over 1 million downloads in a week with her third studio album “Hello.”

2012 The James Bond spy movie “Skyfall,” starring Daniel Craig, premiered at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.

2001 Apple’s iPod hit store shelves.

The first-generation iPod enabled customers to store up to 1,000 songs on their small music MP3 player.

1998 Britney Spears’s first single, “Baby One More Time,” was released.

1975 Elton John became the 1,662nd person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1958 The Smurfs were published for the first time in Spirou magazine in Belgium.

1941 Walt Disney’s animated Dumbo was released in New York City, New York, US.

1933 The bank robber John Dillinger and his gang robbed $75,000 from the Central National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana.

1915 More than 25,000 people marched down New York’s 5th Avenue supporting women’s suffrage.

Led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters, it would be another five years before their success was found.

1642 The first major battle of the First English Civil War began near Edge Hill, Warwickshire.

The Battle of Edgehill was a pitched battle between the forces of King Charles and the English Parliament. Neither side gained any decisive advantage, with both sustaining heavy losses.

4004 BC God created the world, at least according to Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh.

In the 17th century, scientists weren't the only ones starting to ponder the beginnings of the universe. Ussher, the head of the Anglican Church of Ireland at the time, attempted to calculate the dates of many important events described in the Old Testament. His calculations, which he published in 1650, were not that far off from many other estimates made at the time. Sir Isaac Newton, for example, believed that the world was created in 4000 BC.