Today is Friday, October 23, the 296th day of 2009. There are 69 days left in the year.
1884 _ First world series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
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
1973 _ Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 _ U.N.'s revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1983 _ Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 U.S. personnel in Beirut
1990 _ Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 _ Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills two women