October 23 is:
National Boston Cream Pie Day
Per Foodimentary.com
Boston Cream Pie was invented at Boston’s Parker House around 1912. Ho Chi Minh, the future Communist leader of North Vietnam, claimed to have been a dessert cook at the time.
A Boston cream pie is a cake that is filled with a custard or cream filling and frosted with chocolate.
Although it is called a Boston cream pie, it is in fact a cake, and not a pie.
Boston cream pie was created by Armenian-French chef M. Sanzian at Boston’s Parker House Hotel in 1856,
The Boston cream pie is the official dessert of Massachusetts, declared as such in 1996.
A Boston cream doughnut is a name for a Berliner filled with vanilla custard or crème pâtissière and topped with icing made from chocolate.
National Mole Day,an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists, chemistry students and chemistry enthusiasts on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, making the date 6:02 10/23 in the American style of writing dates. The time and date are derived from Avogadro’s number, which is approximately 6.02×1023, defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one mole of substance, one of the seven base SI (System of Units) units.
TV Talk Show Host Day : Comedian and talk show host Johnny Carson was born on October 23, 1925 in Corning, Iowa.
Feast Day of St. John of Capistrano: Swallows of Capistrano Day, the traditional day for swallows to leave the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California, to return on March 19. The American cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) is a migratory bird that spends its winters in Goya, Argentina, but makes the 6,000-mile (10,000 km) trek north to the warmer climes of the American Southwest in springtime. According to legend, the birds, who have visited the San Juan Capistrano area every summer for centuries, first took refuge at the Mission when an irate innkeeper began destroying their mud nests (the birds also frequent the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo). The Mission’s location near two rivers made it an ideal location for the swallows to nest, as there was a constant supply of the insects on which they feed, and the young birds are well-protected inside the ruins of the old stone church.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1861 suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases. Definition of habeas corpus = Medieval Latin meaning literally “that you have the body”) is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.
1935 – Dutch Schultz, his accountant and two bodyguards were fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Flegenheimer) was a New York City-area mobster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging alcohol and the numbers racket. Weakened by two tax evasion trials led by prosecutor Thomas Dewey, Schultz’s rackets were also threatened by fellow mobster Lucky Luciano. In an attempt to avert his conviction, Schultz asked the Commission (governing body of the Mafia) for permission to kill Dewey, which they refused. When Schultz disobeyed them and attempted to kill him anyway, the Commission ordered his murder in 1935.
1941: The Disney animated classic Dumbo had its world premiere.
All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner were killed when it was struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California on this date in 1942. Among the victims was award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger (“Thanks for the Memory”, “Love in Bloom”, “Blue Hawaii”).
The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City in 1946.
2001 Apple Computer Inc. introduced the iPod portable digital music player.