Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 23
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1906 - Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist painter, died. Among his best known works are "Card Players" and "Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine Trees".
1923 - Failed Royalist coup in Greece.
1962 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced that a Soviet missile base was being built in Cuba and ordered a naval blockade of ships carrying equipment there.
1962 - Nelson Mandela pleaded not guilty at the start of his treason trial in South Africa.
1964 - French writer Jean-Paul Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature, saying it would reduce the impact of his writing.
1999 - Former guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao returned to East Timor after years in an Indonesian jail.
1999 - World Solar Challenge race between Darwin and Adelaide is won by Australian team becoming first local team to win in 12-year history.
2002 - Geraldine Nagy-Appony, Albania's former queen, died aged 87. She was married in 1938 to King Zog, a Muslim chieftain who proclaimed himself monarch in 1928. They left the country with their infant son Leka in April 1939, when fascist Italy invaded.
2004 - Russia's Duma ratified the Kyoto Protocol, clearing the way for the long-delayed climate change pact to come into force worldwide.
2005 - A Boeing aircraft operated by Nigerian private carrier Bellview crashed in stormy weather shortly after take-off from Lagos, killing all 117 people on board.
2014 - Gunman attacks targets around Canada's parliament building.
