Today in History: Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of murdering popular Latin singer Selena in 1995

The following are some of the most significant events which took place on 23 October in history:

4004 BC – James Ussher’s purported creation date of the world according to the Bible.

425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.

1642 – The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War.

1856 – Second Opium War: Dissatisfied with imperial commissioner Ye Mingchen’s reparations for the alleged slighting of a British-owned vessel and at Consul Harry Parkes’s urging, British Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour launches an assault on the Barrier Forts outside Canton in the first military engagement of the Second Opium War.

1923 – German October: Due to a miscommunication with the party leadership, a militant section of the Communist Party of Germany launches an insurrection in Hamburg.

1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.

1958 – Canada’s Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.

1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena.

2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.

2022 – Myanmar Air Force airstrikes a concert in Hpakant Township, Kachin state killing at least 80 people, including senior Kachin Independence Organisation officials, in the Hpakant massacre.