Today is Tuesday, October 23, the 296th day of 2007. There are 69 days left in the year.
1790 _ Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1876 _ New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1915 _ 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1927 _ The city of Netanya, Israel, founded
1941 _ Walt Disney's ``Dumbo" released
1942 _ During WWII, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1944 _ The Soviet army invades Hungary
1947 _ NAACP petition on racism, ``An Appeal to the World" presented to the U.N.
1954 _ Britain, England, France and the USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 _ The Hungarian Revolution begins
1958 _ Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1980 _ Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
1981 _ U.S. national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 _ Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 U.S. personnel in Beirut
1984 _ NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1990 _ Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 _ Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women