TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, OCT. 23, the 297th day of 2016. There are 69 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1956, a student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country and the uprising was put down within weeks. In 1864, forces led by Union Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis repelled Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price’s army in the Civil War Battle of Westport in Missouri. In 1915, tens of thousands of women paraded up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote. In 1941, the Walt Disney animated feature “Dumbo,” about a young circus elephant who learns how to fly, premiered in New York. In 1942, during World War II, Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt, resulting in an Allied victory. In 1944, the World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf began, resulting in a major Allied victory against Japanese forces. In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow. In 1973, President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica. In 1983, 241 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. In 2001, the nation’s anthrax scare hit the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail processing center. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Baseball Hallof-Famer and former U.S. Senator Jim Bunning, R-Ky., is 85. Soccer great Pele is 76. Rhythm-and-blues singer Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups) is 73. ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross is 68. Movie director Ang Lee is 62. Jazz singer Dianne Reeves and country singer Dwight Yoakam are 60. Movie director Sam Raimi and parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic are 57. Rock musician Robert Trujillo (Metallica) is 52. Actor Jon Huertas, movie director Chris Weitz and CNN medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta are 47. Country singer Jimmy Wayne is 44. Actress Vivian Bang is 43. Rock musician Eric Bass (Shinedown) is 42. Actor Ryan Reynolds is 40. Rock singer Matthew Shultz (Cage the Elephant) is 33. Actress Masiela Lusha is 31. Actresses Emilia Clarke, Briana Evigan and Jessica Stroup are 30. Actress Amandla Stenberg is 18.