Today in History

October 23

1944 - Soviet army invades Hungary.

1953 - Federal Constitution of Rhodesia and Nyasaland goes into effect. 1980 - Soviet prime minister Alexei Kosygin resigns due to ill health.

1985 - Emirates airline is formally launched in Dubai.

1989 - Hungary is officially proclaimed a free republic following the end of communist rule.

1994 - Sri Lankan leader Gamini Dissanayake is assassinated in a bomb blast in Colombo.

1998 - A Palestinian-Israeli interim peace accord is signed at the White House. 2003 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek, widow of Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, dies in New York at age 105.

2013 - China and India sign an agreement to boost militaries’ meetings.