Today in History - History - October 23rd

1917Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky

1941Walt Disney's animation "Dumbo" released

2008Joe Sakic scores his final career goal (#625) against the Edmonton Oilers

1642Battle of Edgehill (Warwickshire): King Charles I beat English parliamentarian forces

1923Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform

1978Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC

1958Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1989George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album

1935Mackenzie King is elected as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time

1963Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" premieres in NYC

1869John Heisman, Cleveland Ohio, American pioneering football coach/trophy namesake

63 BCMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general (Battle of Actium) (or 64 BC)

1844Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis

1959Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], California, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)

2010Singer-songwriter Katy Perry (25) weds actor-comedian Russell Brand (35) at luxury resort Aman-i-Khas in Northern India

1918Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)

1978Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69

1957Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 of a heart attack