Today in HistoryToday <$>is Monday, October 23, the 296th day of 2006. There are 69 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE<$>:

In 1915, 25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

In 1942, during the Second World War, Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt.

In 1944, the Second World War the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

In 1956, a spontaneous, student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule began in Budapest; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, and the uprising was put down within weeks.

In 1983, 241 US Marines and sailors in Lebanon were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.” — Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (1903-1968).