10-23-2005, 06:08 AM
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October 23rd
4004 BC ~ The start of the universe, according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.
1892 ~ Birthday of Gummo Marx, actor, comedian (Marx Brothers).
1915 ~ Approximately 33,000 women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City to demand the right to vote.
1935 ~ Birthday of Chi Chi Rodriguez, golf champion.
1940 ~ Birthday of Pelé, soccer player Extraordinaire.
1942 ~ Second Battle of El Alamein started - In Egypt, British forces begin a major offensive against Axis forces.
1956 ~ Hungarians took to the streets in to demand an end to Soviet rule. Thousands died.
1958 ~ Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters The Smurfs.
1983 ~ A suicide truck-bombing in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. soldiers.
1998 ~ Death of Dr. Barnett Slepian, physician.
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