OCTOBER 23
2002:About 50 armed rebels take more than 850 theatergoers hostage during a musical performance at Moscow's House of Culture, demanding the withdrawal of Russian military forces from Chechnya. Most of the rebels and about 129 hostages will be killed three days later when Russian special forces raid the building.
1983: Two hundred and forty-one U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors are killed when terrorists detonate a suicide truck bomb at the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Minutes later, a second terrorist attack claims the lives of 58 paratroopers at the nearby French barracks.
1998: Barnett Slepian, M.D., is fatally shot through his kitchen window in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., by anti-abortion extremist James Kopp. Slepian had turned 52 only two days earlier.
1963:British TV show "Dr Who" premieres
1958:Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1707:First Parliament of Great Britain meets
2001:The First IPod is introduced.
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