october 23: what happened to that day

Zaporozhye Cossacks in 1545, having gone to sea on 32 seagulls, approached the Turkish fortress of Achi-Kala (Ochakov) and captured it.

In 1748, the construction of the first chemical laboratory in the Russian Empire, founded by Mikhail Lomonosov, was completed.

On this day, but in 1803, English physicist and chemist John Dalton calculated the atomic masses for the 21st element and compound.

In 1947, for the first time, the couple became Nobel laureates. Natives of Austria American biochemists Gerty and Carl Corey "for the discovery of the catalytic transformation of glycogen" was awarded the prize in physiology or medicine;

On October 23, German traveler and geologist, explorer of Australia Ludwig Leichhardt (1813); French artist, graphic artist, book illustrator Jean-Louis Forin (1852); English engineer, one of the creators of the first British car Frederick William Lanchester (1868); Italian children's writer, storyteller, author of "The Adventures of Cipollino" and journalist Gianni Rodari (1920).