Today In History

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2018. There are 69 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1983: Two hundred forty-one U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

ON THIS DATE

› 1707: The first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held its first meeting.

› 1915: Tens of thousands of women paraded up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

› 1958: Boris Pasternak was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. (However, Soviet authorities pressured Pasternak into relinquishing the award.)

› 1973: President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica.

› 1987: The U.S. Senate rejected, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.

› 1991: Cambodia’s warring factions and representatives of 18 other nations signed a peace treaty in Paris.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Movie director Philip Kaufman is 82. Soccer great Pele is 78. Rhythm and blues singer Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups) is 75. Former ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross is 70. Actor Michael Rupert is

67. Movie director Ang Lee is 64. Rock musician Robert Trujillo (Metallica) is 54. Christian/jazz singer David Thomas (Take 6) is 52. Rock musician Brian Nevin (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) is 52. Country singer-musician Junior Bryant is 50. Actor Jon Huertas is

49. Movie director Chris Weitz is 49. CNN medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta is 49. Bluegrass musician Eric Gibson (The Gibson Brothers) is 48. Country singer Jimmy Wayne is

46. Actress Vivian Bang is 45. Rock musician Eric Bass (Shinedown) is 44. TV personality and host Cat Deeley is 42. Actress Masiela Lusha is 33. Actress Emilia Clarke is

32. Actress Briana Evigan is 32. Actress Inbar Lavi is

32. Actress Jessica Stroup is 32. Neo-soul musician Allen Branstetter (St. Paul & the Broken Bones) is

28. Actress Taylor Spreitler is 25. Actress Amandla Stenberg is 20.