Sunday, October 23, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 23
1983:Two hundred forty-one U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors are killed when a suicide truck bomb detonates at the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Minutes later, a second terrorist attack claims the lives of 58 paratroopers at the nearby French barracks.

1910: Blanche S. Scott is the first female aviator to give a solo public demonstration, flying over Fort Wayne, Ind.

1956: Tens of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in Budapest, Hungary, calling for the reinstatement of Prime Minister Imre Nagy and freedom from Soviet control over their country. Over the next two weeks, several thousand people will be killed in clashes with Hungarian secret police and Soviet troops.
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