TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Oct. 23, 1973

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

ON THIS DATE

1915

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

2014

Officials announced that an emergency room doctor who’d recently returned to New York City after treating Ebola patients in West Africa tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation.