SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010

Today is Saturday, October 23, the 296th day of 2010. There are 69 days left in the year.

1775 _ Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army

1884 _ First world series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0

1915 _ 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote

1944 _ Soviet army invades Hungary

1954 _ Britain, England, France and USSR agree to end occupation of Germany

1956 _ First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast

1956 _ Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary

1958 _ Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1983 _ Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 U.S. personnel in Beirut

1991 _ Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills two women