October 23: Women's suffrage march held in NYC, President Nixon hands over Watergate tapes

October 24, 7:39 PMPortland History ExaminerNatalie Leavitt

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Maine Fast Fact: Harriet Beecher Stowe began writer Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1851 in Brunswick. When meeting Stowe, President Abraham Lincoln remarked, “So this is the little old lady who started this new great war!”

Births:

• 1762: Samuel Morey, American inventor of the internal combustion engine
• 1835: Adlai E. Stevenson I, Congressman from Illinois, Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897 under President Grover Cleveland
• 1869: John William Heisman, American football coach, namesake of the Heisman Trophy
• 1925: Johnny Carson, American television host and comedian, host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years
• 1942: Michael Crichton, American author, director, producer and screenwriter
• 1954: Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American film director
• 1957: Martin Luther King III, American human rights activist, eldest son and oldest living child of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
• 1959: Nancy Grace, American legal commentator and television host; “Weird Al” Yankovic, American musical parodist
• 1962: Doug Flutie, American football player
• 1964: Robert Trujillo, American musician, bassist for the band Metallica
• 1965: Augusten Burroughs, American writer, author of the memoir Running with Scissors
• 1976: Ryan Reynolds, Canadian television and film actor

Deaths:

• 1957: Christian Doir, French fashion designer

History:

• 1707: The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
• 1850: The first National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 1861: President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C.
• Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeats Confederate forces under General Sterling Price at the Battle of Westport, near Kansas City during the Civil War.
• 1911: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War, the first use of an aircraft in war.
• 1915: In New York City, 25,000 to 33,000 women march down Fifth Avenue to advocate women's suffrage.
• 1946: The United Nations General Assembly assembles for the first time in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
• 1956: Thousands of Hungarians protest against the Soviet occupation of Hungary.
• 1958: An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the deepest coal mine in North American in Springhill, Nova Scotia.
• 1973: President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed tapes of conversations in his Oval Office during the Watergate Scandal.
• 1983: A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon kills 220 U.S. Marines, 18 sailors and three army soldier and an attack on French forces kills 58 paratroopers.
• 1987: The U.S. Senate rejects the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court in a vote of 58-42.
• 1989: The communist Hungarian People's Republic is officially replaced by the Hungarian Republic.
• 1996: The New York Yankees come back from 6-0 to beat the Atlanta Braves 8-6 in the World Series, also setting a record as their 7th straight road win.
• 2001: Apple releases the iPod.
• 2002: Chechen terrorists seize control of the House of Culture theater in Moscow, taking 700 people hostage and threatening to kill them unless the Russian Army pulls out of Chechnya.
• 2006: Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced to 24 years and four months in prison by a federal judge in Houston for his role in the company's collapse.

October 23 is National Day in Hungary, celebrating the revolution of 1956 and President Matyas Szuros declaration of the Hungarian Republic replacing communist Hungarian People's Republic in 1989.