TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 23
1915: Several thousand men join 25,000 women in a march down New York’s Fifth Avenue for women’s right to vote.

1973: North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho declines the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for their work in negotiating a cease-fire during the Vietnam War.

1983: A truck bomb rips through the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. peacekeepers. Nearly 60 French paratroopers die in a similar attack two miles