This Day in History - October 23

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

1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.

1973 - President Richard Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.

1983 - A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors.

2002 - Chechen rebels seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage. Russian forces stormed the building the next day.