October 23: Battle at Zallak, fashionable Adlon Hotel and speed record for cars

On October 23, 1086, the battle of Zallak took place, in which the troops of Morocco and the Spanish Muslims defeated the army of King Leon and Castile Alfonso VI.

1769 - a three-wheeled steam wagon - the ancestor of the car - for the first time achieves a speed of 4.5 km/h.

1803 - John Dalton calculates atomic masses for the 21st element and compound.

1873 - germany’s accession to the Russian-Austrian Convention. Created Union of the Three Emperors.

1907 - the fashionable Adlon Hotel was solemnly opened in Berlin on Unter den Linden.

1923 - a workers' uprising began in Hamburg, organized by the communists under the leadership of Ernst Thalmann to seize power in Germany. The uprising did not find support among the workers of other cities and was crushed in two days.

1944 - the second battle in the Philippine Sea, the largest naval battle in history, began between the American fleet and the Japanese imperial fleet.

1952 - Charlie Chaplin’s premiere film, Ramp Lights, premiered in New York.

1970 - in the Salt Desert in Utah, American Harry Garbelich in a The Blue Flame car with a jet engine set a speed record for cars - 631,367 mph (about 1,023 km/h).

1989 - the establishment of the Republic of Hungary is proclaimed in Budapest.

1998 - Corel announced the possibility of free downloading from its website a version of WordPerfect text editor for Linux.

2000 - chinese archaeologists discovered a museum of musical instruments, which was established 2,000 years ago, in the era of the Han dynasty.