October 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	42 BC	Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.	Johnny Mandel	Suicide is Painless	M*A*S*H
2.	1950	The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.	Belle & Sebastian	Women's Realm	Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
3.	1861	U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.	Drive Like Jehu	Good Luck in Jail	Drive Like Jehu
4.	1958	The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story Le flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou	Tyrannosaurus Rex	Dwarfish Trumpet Blues	My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Thier Hair But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows
5.	2001	Apple releases the iPod.	The Beach Boys	I Can Hear Music	20/20
6.	N/A	Mole Day (Chemists)	múm	There is a Number of Small Things	Yesterday was dramatic - today is OK

(Historical facts about October 23 are from Wikipedia)