Today in History....October 23

On this day in …

1915, 25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote

1942, during World War II, Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt

1944, the World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf began

1946, the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow in Queens

1956, a spontaneous, student-sparked revolt against Hungary's Communist rule began in Budapest; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, and the uprising was put down within weeks
1973, President Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica

1983, practitioners of that "religion of peace" were busy! 241 U.S. Marines and sailors in Lebanon were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers

1996, the civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, Calif., (Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.)

2001, The nation's anthrax scare hit the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail processing center

President Bush announced he had authorized money for improved post office security following the deaths of two postal workers from inhalation anthrax

The Irish Republican Army announced that it had begun to disarm for the first time