Today is Tuesday, October 23, the 297th day of 2012. There are 69 days left in the year.
1910 ― Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight
1915 ― 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
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
1964 ― Japanese beat Russian for first Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1973 ― Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
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