Daily Calendar for Thursday, October 23, 2025

Zane Grey (author) – 1939
Adolph Green (author & lyricist) – 2002
Madame Chiang Kai-shek (became one of the world’s most famous women as she helped her husband fight the Japanese during World War II and later the Chinese Communists) – 2003
Robert Merrill (baritone) – 2004

25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote– 1915
Charlie Chaplin married Mildred Harris– 1918
Researchers at the University of Toronto announced the development of an electronic cardiac pacemaker– 1950
Cumberland mine disaster– 1958
Garfield the Cat’s lovable teddy bear, Pooky, made his comic strip debut– 1978

Flood “swept all the fences off” in Newbury, Vermont– 1785
Newbury, Vermont, received 12 inches of snow, which stayed until spring– 1843
1 foot of snow fell in Haverhill, New Hampshire– 1843
A hurricane hit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania– 1878
A tornado hit Cass County, Indiana, around mid-afternoon– 1971
Major flooding occurred in Chickasha, Oklahoma– 2000
The Neches River in southeast Texas was 8 feet above flood stage due to heavy rain– 2006
Hurricane Patricia, a Category 5, became the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western hemisphere, with maximum sustained winds near 200 mph.– 2015

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