October 23
1915
25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
1946
The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
1973
President Richard Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
1983
A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors.
2002
Chechen rebels seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage. Russian forces stormed the building the next day.
2003
Madame Chiang Kai-shek died at age 105.
Birthdays
Pelé
1940–, Brazilian soccer (football) player.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Vice President (1835)
John Heisman
football coach (1869)
William D. Coolidge
inventor (1873)
Gertrude Ederle
swimmer (1905)
Johnny Carson
entertainer (1925)
Michael Crichton
novelist (1942)
Ang Lee
director, writer (1954)
Dwight Yoakam
singer and actor (1956)
Sam Raimi
filmmaker (1959)
Ryan Reynolds
actor (1976)